Job 2

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¹One day the members of the heavenly court came again to present themselves before the Lord, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them. ✦ ²“Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan. Satan answered the Lord, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.” ✦ ³Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged me to harm him without cause.” ✦ ⁴Satan replied to the Lord, “Skin for skin! A man will give up everything he has to save his life. ✦ ⁵But reach out and take away his health, and he will surely curse you to your face!” ✦ ⁶“All right, do with him as you please,” the Lord said to Satan. “But spare his life.” ✦ ⁷So Satan left the Lord’s presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot. ✦ ⁸Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes. ✦ ⁹His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.” ✦ ¹⁰But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong. ✦ ¹¹When three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. ✦ ¹²When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief. ✦ ¹³Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words. ✦

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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.

How Job 2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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