Job Loses His Health

1And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before YHWH, and Satan† also came into their midst to present himself before YHWH.

2And YHWH said to Satan, “From where have you come to here?”

And Satan answered YHWH and said, “From roaming on the earth and walking back and forth on it.”

3And YHWH said to Satan, “Have you set your heart toward My servant Job, how there is no one like him on the earth, a man complete and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? And still he holds firmly to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to devour him without cause.”

4But Satan answered YHWH and said, “Skin for skin—and all that is unto the man, he will give for his life. 5But now stretch out Your hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh—if he will not curse You to Your face!”

6And YHWH said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, yet his life you must spare.”

7And Satan went forth from the face of YHWH, and he struck Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot even up to the crown of his head. 8And he took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he was sitting in the midst of the ashes.

9And his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly onto your integrity? Curse† God and die!”

10And he said to her, “You speak like the speaking of one of the foolish women! Shall we receive the good from God, and not also receive the bad?”

In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Job’s Three Friends

11And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they came, each man from his place—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—and they met together to come to nod to him and to comfort him.

12And they lifted their eyes from afar, and they did not recognize him. And they lifted their voices and wept, and each man tore his robe, and they scattered dust upon their heads toward the heavens. 13Then they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and there was no speaking to him a word, for they saw that his pain was very great.