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Job Loses His Health

^1 (C1)Again there was a day when the sons of God (angels) came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan (adversary, accuser) also came among them to present himself before the LORD.² The LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Then Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming around on the earth and from walking around on it."³ The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered and reflected on My servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God with reverence and abstains from and turns away from evil because he honors God. And still he ^(C1)maintains and holds tightly to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to destroy him without cause."⁴ Satan answered the LORD, "^(F1)Skin for skin! Yes, a man will give all he has for his life.⁵ "^(C1)But put forth Your hand now, and ^(C2)touch his bone and his flesh and severely afflict him; and he will curse You to Your face."⁶ So the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand, only spare his life."

⁷ So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with ^(C1)loathsome boils and agonizingly painful sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.⁸ And Job took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself, and ^(C1)he sat down among the ashes (rubbish heaps).

⁹ Then his wife said to him, "Do you still cling to your integrity and your faith and trust in God, without blaming Him? Curse God and die!"¹⁰ But he said to her, "You speak as one of the spiritually foolish women speaks ignorant and oblivious to God's will. ^(C1)Shall we indeed accept only good from God and not also accept adversity and disaster?" ^(C2)In spite of all this Job did not sin with words from his lips.

¹¹ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place, Eliphaz the ^(C1)Temanite, Bildad the ^(C2)Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to ^(C3)sympathize with him and to comfort him.¹² When they looked from a distance and did not recognize him because of his disfigurement, they raised their voices and wept; and each one ^(C1)tore his robe in grief and they ^(C2)threw dust over their heads toward the sky in sorrow.^13 (C1)So they sat down on the ground with Job for seven days and seven nights and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.