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OEB JOB Chapter 2

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2 Now on a certain day the heavenly Beings came to present themselves before Jehovah, and among them came Satan to present himself before Jehovah. 2 Then Jehovah asked Satan where he had come from, and satan answered Jehovah thus, "From ranging the earth and from walking up and down it." 3 Then Jehovah said to Satan:

"Hast thou noted my servant Job,

That on earth there is none like him–

A man blameless and upright,

Who fears God and shuns evil?

And still he clings to his honour–

In vain hast thou set me on to destroy him."

4 To this Satan made answer:

"Skin for skin;

All a man’s goods will he give for his life.

5 But put forth Thy hand, touch his bone and his flesh

And assuredly then to Thy face he will curse Thee."

6 Whereat Jehovah said to Satan:

"See! he is on thy power,

But take heed that thou spare his life."

7 Then forth Satan went from the presence of Jehovah.

The Second Test

And he smote Job from the sole of his foot to the 8 crown of his head with boils so grievous that he took a potsherd to scratch with; and, as he was 9 sitting among the ashes, his wife said to him:

"Art thou clinging still to thine honour?

Curse God and die."

10 But Job said to her:

"Must thou too speak

As a foolish women speak?

We accept from God what is good:

Shall we not accept what is evil?"

In all this Job was guilty of no sin of speech.

Job’s Friends Come to Comfort Him

11 When Job’s three friends heard of all the misery that had come upon him, they travelled each man from his own place – Eliphaz the Temabite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made a tyrst together to come to condole with 12 him and comfort him. But when they caught a glimpse of him at a distance they did not recognize him. Then every man of them wept aloud and tore his robe and scattered dust heavenwards upon 13 his head. Then they sat down beside him upon the ground seven days and nights, and no one said a word to him; for they saw that his pain was very great.

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