Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? [a]Curse God and die!”

10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. (A)Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (B)In all this Job did not (C)sin with his lips.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:9 Lit. Bless, but in an evil sense; cf. Job 1:5

15 (A)Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.
(B)Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.

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Job Maintains His Integrity

27 Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:

As God lives, (A)who has taken away my justice,
And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
As long as my breath is in me,
And the breath of God in my nostrils,
My lips will not speak wickedness,
Nor my tongue utter deceit.
Far be it from me
That I should say you are right;
Till I die (B)I will not put away my integrity from me.

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