Job Loses His Health 1 UDB On another day, the angels came again and gathered together in front of Yahweh; Satan also came again. BSB BSB: On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
2 UDB Yahweh asked Satan, "Where have you come from this time?" Satan replied, "I have come from the earth, where I have been traveling back and forth to see what is happening." BSB BSB: “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
3 UDB Yahweh asked Satan, "You have you noticed my servant Job, who worships me, have you not? He continues to honor me; he is very exceptional, for he lives in a way that is more right than anyone else on the earth. He does this even though you persuaded me to attack him for no reason." BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
4 UDB Satan replied to Yahweh, "He praises you only because you have helped him. People will give up everything they have to save their own lives. BSB BSB: “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
5 UDB But if you harm his body, he will surely curse you in front of everyone!" BSB BSB: But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
6 UDB Yahweh replied to Satan, "All right, you may do to him whatever you like, but do not cause him to die." BSB BSB: “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
7 UDB So Satan left, and he caused Job to suffer with very painful boils, from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. BSB BSB: So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
8 UDB Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped the boils on his skin, and he sat in ashes to mourn and wail. BSB BSB: And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
9 UDB His wife said to him, "Are you still trying to be loyal to God? You should curse God, and then go ahead and die." BSB BSB: Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 UDB But Job replied, "You talk like people talk who do not know God. We should not only accept the good things that God does for us. We should also accept the bad things." So in spite of all these things that happened to Job, he did not offend God by saying anything against him. BSB BSB: “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Job’s Three Friends 11 UDB Among Job's friends were Eliphaz from the town of Teman, Bildad from the land of Shuah, and Zophar from the land of Naamah. When they heard about all the terrible things that had happened to Job, they left their homes and went together to Job to mourn with him and to comfort him. BSB BSB: Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
12 UDB But when they saw Job from a distance, they almost did not recognize him. They wailed loudly, they tore their robes, and they threw dust into the air that settled on their heads. They did this to show how sorry they were for him. BSB BSB: When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
13 UDB Then they sat on the ground with Job for seven days. None of them said anything to him, because they saw that he was suffering greatly, and they did not think that anything that they could say would lessen his pain. BSB BSB: Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
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