³ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, ^(A)a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he ^(B)holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, ^(C)to ^[a]destroy him without cause.”

⁴ So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. ^5 (D)But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his ^(E)bone and his flesh, and he will surely ^[b]curse You to Your face!”

^6 (F)And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”

⁷ So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils ^(G)from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. ⁸ And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself ^(H)while he sat in the midst of the ashes.

⁹ Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? ^[c]Curse God and die!”

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

Job’s Three Friends

¹¹ Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place—Eliphaz the ^(L)Temanite, Bildad the ^(M)Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come ^(N)and mourn with him, and to comfort him.

^10 (A)And the Lord ^[a]restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job ^(B)twice as much as he had before. ¹¹ Then ^(C)all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.

¹² Now the Lord blessed ^(D)the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had ^(E)fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. ^13 (F)He also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the name of the first ^[b]Jemimah, the name of the second ^[c]Keziah, and the name of the third ^[d]Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵ In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

¹⁶ After this Job ^(G)lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. ¹⁷ So Job died, old and ^(H)full of days.