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there was a day when the celestial sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. 2 And the Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From going to and fro throughout the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”
3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. He still holds fast to his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to destroy him without cause.”
4 So Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. 5 But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.”
6 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well then, he is in your hands, but spare his life.”
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 Job took a piece of broken pottery to scape himself with, and he sat down among the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 But he replied to her, “You speak as a foolish woman speaks. What, will we receive only good at the hand of God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his own house—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had agreed to meet together to come and sympathize with Job and comfort him. 12 When they looked from a distance, they could hardly recognize him, and they wept loudly; and each one of them tore his robe and they threw dust in the air over their heads. 13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.