Job 2:1-9

Living Bible

2 Now the angels^[a] came again to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan was with them.

² “Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan.

“From earth, where I’ve been watching everything that’s going on,” Satan replied.

³ “Well, have you noticed my servant Job?” the Lord asked. “He is the finest man in all the earth—a good man who fears God and turns away from all evil. And he has kept his faith in me despite the fact that you persuaded me to let you harm him without any cause.”

^4-5 “Skin for skin,” Satan replied. “A man will give anything to save his life. Touch his body with sickness, and he will curse you to your face!”

⁶ “Do with him as you please,” the Lord replied; “only spare his life.”

⁷ So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with a terrible case of boils from head to foot. ⁸ Then Job took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.

⁹ His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to be godly when God has done all this to you? Curse him and die.”