Job 2

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¹Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord. ✦ ²And the Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” ✦ ³Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.” ✦ ⁴So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. ✦ ⁵But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” ✦ ⁶And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.” ✦ ⁷So 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. ✦ ⁸And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes. ✦ ⁹Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” ✦ ¹⁰But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. ✦ ¹¹Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him. ✦ ¹²And when they raised their eyes from afar, and did not recognize him, they lifted their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward heaven. ✦ ¹³So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Job 1 ·14 Job 19 ·5 Gen 3 ·3 2 Sam 13 ·3 Job 2 ·3 Job 42 ·3 Ps 38 ·3 Job 9 ·2

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

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