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Job 2 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:1 - And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst to station himself by Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:2 - And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Whence camest thou?' And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down in it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:4 - And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh -- if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6 - And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Lo, he is in thy hand; only his life take care of.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:7 - And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:8 - And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - And his wife saith to him, 'Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:12 - and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads -- heavenward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:13 - And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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