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Job 2 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Satan Attacks Job’s Health
Satan Attacks Job’s Health
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:1 - Again 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:2 - And the LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - Then 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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:4 - So Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - “But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6 - And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:7 - So 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:8 - And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - But 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.
Job’s Three Friends
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - Now 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:12 - And 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:13 - So 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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