^4 (A)You adulterous people!^[a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^(B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit ^(C)that he has made to dwell in us”? ⁶ But ^(D)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, ^(E)“God opposes the proud but ^(F)gives grace to the humble.” ⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. ^(G)Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ^8 (H)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. ^(I)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and ^(J)purify your hearts, ^(K)you double-minded. ^9 (L)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ^10 (M)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

⁷ So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome ^(A)sores from ^(B)the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. ⁸ And he took ^(C)a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in ^(D)the ashes.

⁹ Then his wife said to him, “Do you still ^(E)hold fast your integrity? ^(F)Curse God and die.” ¹⁰ But he said to her, “You speak as one of the ^(G)foolish women would speak. ^(H)Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?”^{[a] (I)}In all this Job did not ^(J)sin with his lips.

Job's Three Friends

¹¹ Now when Job's three ^(K)friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz ^(L)the Temanite, Bildad ^(M)the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to ^(N)show him sympathy and comfort him. ¹² And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they ^(O)tore their robes and sprinkled ^(P)dust on their heads toward heaven. ¹³ And they sat with him on the ground ^(Q)seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.