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1One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves before the Lord , and the accuser also came among them to present himself before the Lord .[#Job 1.6; #2.1 Heb sons of God; #2.1 Heb the satan]
2The Lord said to the accuser, “Where have you come from?” The accuser answered the Lord , “From going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it.”[#Job 1.7; #2.2 Heb the satan; #2.2 Heb The satan]
3The Lord said to the accuser, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.”[#Job 1.1, 8; 9.17; 27.5, 6; #2.3 Heb the satan]
4Then the accuser answered the Lord , “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.[#2.4 Heb the satan]
5But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”[#Job 1.11]
6The Lord said to the accuser, “Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life.”[#Job 1.12; #2.6 Heb the satan]
7So the accuser went out from the presence of the Lord and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.[#Job 7.5; #2.7 Heb the satan]
8Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.[#Job 42.6; Ezek 27.30; Mt 11.21; #2.8 Heb He]
9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God and die.”[#2.9 Heb Bless]
10But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.[#Job 1.21, 22; Ps 39.1]
11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.[#Gen 25.2; 1 Chr 1.45; Job 42.11]
12When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.[#Josh 7.6; Lam 2.10; Ezek 27.30]
13They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.[#Gen 50.10; Ezek 3.15]