1 And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst to station himself by Jehovah. 2 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Whence camest thou?' And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down in it.' 3 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!' 4 And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life. 5 Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh — if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!' 6 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Lo, he [is] in thy hand; only his life take care of.' 7 And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 8 And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes. 9 And his wife saith to him, 'Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.' 10 And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips. 11 And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place — Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite — and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him; 12 and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads — heavenward. 13 And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.
Job · Young's Literal Translation
Job 2 Young's Literal Translation
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Bildad
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
Eliphaz the Temanite
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
Job
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
Zophar
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
Cross references (13)
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- 1 Job 1:6; Hebrews 1:14; Luke 1:19
- 2 1 Peter 5:8; Job 1:7; John 14:30; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Genesis 16:8
- 3 Job 1:8; James 1:12; Job 27:5–6; Job 9:17; Proverbs 16:17
- 4 Philippians 3:8–10; Matthew 6:25; Matthew 16:26; Jeremiah 41:8; Esther 7:3–4
- 5 Job 1:11; Job 1:5; Leviticus 24:15; Job 19:20–21; Isaiah 8:21
- 6 1 Corinthians 10:13; Luke 22:31–32; Revelation 2:10; Job 1:12; Luke 8:29–33
- 7 Deuteronomy 28:35; Job 30:30; Isaiah 1:6; Job 7:5; Deuteronomy 28:27
- 8 Job 42:6; Jonah 3:6; Ezekiel 27:30; Matthew 11:21; Luke 16:20–21
- 9 Job 2:5; Job 2:3; 2 Kings 6:33; Malachi 3:14; 1 Kings 11:4
- 10 James 1:12; Lamentations 3:38–41; Job 1:21–22; Romans 12:12; James 5:10–11
- 11 Romans 12:15; Job 42:11; Job 6:14; Jeremiah 49:7; Genesis 25:2
- 12 Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 27:30; Joshua 7:6; Nehemiah 9:1; Job 1:20
- 13 Genesis 50:10; Nehemiah 1:4; Ezekiel 3:15; Isaiah 3:26; Job 4:2
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If we have received good from the hand of the Lord, shall we not bear the evil?"
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