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Job’s Blameless Behavior

So[a] Satan[b] went out from Yahweh’s presence,[c] and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head. So[d] he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

Then[e] his wife said to him, “Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? Curse[f] God and die.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:7 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 2:7 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  3. Job 2:7 Literally “the faces of Yahweh”
  4. Job 2:8 Hebrew “And”
  5. Job 2:9 Hebrew “And”
  6. Job 2:9 Literally “Bless”—negative meaning by context

So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

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