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Job Loses His Health

^1 (C1)Again, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and ^(F1)Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.² The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it."³ The LORD said to Satan, "Have you ^(F1)considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man ^(F2)fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still ^(C1)holds firm to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ^(F3)ruin him without cause."⁴ Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has, he will give for his life.⁵ "^(C1)However, reach out with Your hand now, and ^(C2)touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face!"⁶ So the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your ^(F1)power, only spare his life."

⁷ Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with ^(C1)severe boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.⁸ And Job took a piece of pottery to scrape himself while ^(C1)he was sitting in the ashes.

⁹ Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold firm your integrity? Curse God and die!"¹⁰ But he said to her, "You are speaking as one of the foolish women speaks. ^(C1)Shall we actually accept good from God but not accept adversity?" ^(C2)Despite all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

¹¹ Now when Job's three friends heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, they came, each one from his own place—Eliphaz the ^(C1)Temanite, Bildad the ^(C2)Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to ^(C3)sympathize with him and comfort him.¹² When they ^(F1)looked from a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them ^(C1)tore his robe, and they ^(C2)threw dust over their heads toward the sky.^13 (C1)Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.