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1 One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves to the Lord, and Satan came with them to present himself to the Lord.
1 Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.
2 The Lord asked Satan, “What have you been doing?” “Traveling around on earth, going here and there,” Satan replied.
2 Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
3 “Have you noticed my servant Job?” asked the Lord. “There's no one like him on earth, a man of integrity who does what is right, who respects God and avoids evil. And he has kept his integrity, even though you wanted me to harm him for no reason.”
3 Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up everything to save his life.
4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 But reach out and hurt his bones and his flesh, and he will definitely curse you to your face.”
5 But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
6 So the Lord said to Satan, “Very well, you have the power to do whatever you want to him, but don't kill him.”
6 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
7 Then Satan left the Lord's presence and inflicted Job with horrible skin sores from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
7 So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
8 Job picked up a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself as he sat in ashes.
8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!”
9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
10 But he told her, “You're talking just like any foolish woman would! Should we receive only good from God, and not evil?” Despite all this, Job said nothing sinful.
10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
11 When three of Job's friends heard of all the trouble that had happened to him, they each left their homes: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together and went to comfort and console him.
11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
12 When they saw Job from a distance they hardly recognized him. They broke out into loud wailing, tore their robes, and threw dust into the air over their heads.
12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
13 They sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. None of them said anything to him because they saw how badly he was suffering.
13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

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  • Bildad

    Second friend of Job

    Bildad the Shuhite, one of Job's three friends, who answered Job in the dialogues and was rebuked by the LORD.

    Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 8:1; Job 18:1

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  • Eliphaz the Temanite

    First friend of Job

    One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.

    Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1

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  • Job

    Blameless man of Uz

    A blameless and upright man of the land of Uz who had seven sons and three daughters, lost his children and wealth and was afflicted, and was restored by the LORD with twice what…

    Cited in the guide: Job 1:1; Job 1:8; Job 2:11

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  • Zophar

    Third friend of Job

    Zophar the Naamathite, one of Job's three friends, who answered Job in the dialogues and did what the LORD told him after the LORD's rebuke.

    Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 11:1; Job 20:1

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Cross references (13)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 1:6; Hebrews 1:14; Luke 1:19
  2. 2 1 Peter 5:8; Job 1:7; John 14:30; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Genesis 16:8
  3. 3 Job 1:8; James 1:12; Job 27:5–6; Job 9:17; Proverbs 16:17
  4. 4 Philippians 3:8–10; Matthew 6:25; Matthew 16:26; Jeremiah 41:8; Esther 7:3–4
  5. 5 Job 1:11; Job 1:5; Leviticus 24:15; Job 19:20–21; Isaiah 8:21
  6. 6 1 Corinthians 10:13; Luke 22:31–32; Revelation 2:10; Job 1:12; Luke 8:29–33
  7. 7 Deuteronomy 28:35; Job 30:30; Isaiah 1:6; Job 7:5; Deuteronomy 28:27
  8. 8 Job 42:6; Jonah 3:6; Ezekiel 27:30; Matthew 11:21; Luke 16:20–21
  9. 9 Job 2:5; Job 2:3; 2 Kings 6:33; Malachi 3:14; 1 Kings 11:4
  10. 10 James 1:12; Lamentations 3:38–41; Job 1:21–22; Romans 12:12; James 5:10–11
  11. 11 Romans 12:15; Job 42:11; Job 6:14; Jeremiah 49:7; Genesis 25:2
  12. 12 Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 27:30; Joshua 7:6; Nehemiah 9:1; Job 1:20
  13. 13 Genesis 50:10; Nehemiah 1:4; Ezekiel 3:15; Isaiah 3:26; Job 4:2

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 2:10 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon XXXI)

    If we have received good from the hand of the Lord, shall we not bear the evil?"

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)