Job 2
Evangelical Heritage Version
Job’s Second Test
2 Another day arrived when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came into their midst. 2 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming the earth and walking around on it.”
3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still maintains his integrity, even though you incited me against him to destroy him for no reason.”
4 Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! A man will give all he has for his life. 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he will certainly curse you to your face!”
6 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hand, but preserve his life.”
7 Satan then went out from the presence of the Lord. He struck Job with very painful sores from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. 8 So Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he was sitting among the ashes.
9 Then his wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 But he said to her, “You are talking like a woman who lacks moral judgment.[a] If we accept the good that comes from God, shouldn’t we also accept the bad?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Job’s Friends Arrive to Comfort Him
11 Three friends of Job heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, and each of them came from his own homeland: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Na’amathite.[b] They met together and went to sympathize with Job and to comfort him. 12 When they caught sight of Job from a distance, they did not recognize him. They raised their voices and wept. Each man tore his robe and tossed dust into the air and onto his head. 13 They sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very great.
Job 2
Lexham English Bible
The Adversary’s Attack on Job’s Person
2 And then[a] one day the sons of God[b] came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan[c] also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh. 2 So[d] Yahweh asked[e] Satan,[f] “From where have you come?”
And Satan[g] answered Yahweh and said, “From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it.”
3 So[h] Yahweh asked[i] Satan,[j] “Have you considered[k] my servant Job? Indeed,[l] there is no one like him on the earth—a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness even though[m] you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing.”
4 Then[n] Satan[o] answered him and said, “Skin for skin! All that that[p] man has he will give for his life. 5 But stretch out[q] your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see whether[r] he will curse[s] you to your face.”[t]
6 So[u] Yahweh said to Satan,[v] “All right,[w] he is in your power.[x] Only spare his life.”
Job’s Blameless Behavior
7 So[y] Satan[z] went out from Yahweh’s presence,[aa] and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head. 8 So[ab] he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.
9 Then[ac] his wife said to him, “Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? Curse[ad] God and die.”
10 So[ae] he said to her, “You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but[af] not receive the evil?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Thus[ag] Job’s three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So[ah] each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met[ai] together to come to console him and to comfort him.
12 Thus[aj] they lifted up their eyes[ak] from afar, but[al] they did not recognize him, so[am] they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment[an] and threw dust on their heads toward the sky.[ao] 13 Then[ap] they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, but[aq] no one spoke[ar] a word to him because they saw that his[as] suffering was very great.
Footnotes
- Job 2:1 Literally “And it came to be,” or “and it happened”
- Job 2:1 Or “the heavenly beings,” or “the angels”
- Job 2:1 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:2 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:2 Literally “said to”
- Job 2:2 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:2 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:3 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:3 Literally “said to”
- Job 2:3 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:3 Literally “set your heart”
- Job 2:3 Or “For” or “Because”
- Job 2:3 Hebrew “and”
- Job 2:4 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:4 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:4 Literally “the”
- Job 2:5 Or “please”
- Job 2:5 Literally “if not”
- Job 2:5 Literally “bless”—negative meaning by context
- Job 2:5 Hebrew “your faces”
- Job 2:6 Literally “And it happened the/one day”
- Job 2:6 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:6 Literally “Look”
- Job 2:6 Literally “hand”
- Job 2:7 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:7 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:7 Literally “the faces of Yahweh”
- Job 2:8 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:9 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:9 Literally “Bless”—negative meaning by context
- Job 2:10 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:10 Or “and”
- Job 2:11 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:11 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:11 Or “they agreed”
- Job 2:12 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:12 Or “they gazed”
- Job 2:12 Hebrew “and”
- Job 2:12 Hebrew “and”
- Job 2:12 Or “robe”
- Job 2:12 Or “in the air”; literally “to the heavens”
- Job 2:13 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:13 Hebrew “and”
- Job 2:13 Or “there was no speaking”
- Job 2:13 Literally “the”
The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.
2012 by Logos Bible Software. Lexham is a registered trademark of Logos Bible Software