| 2:1 | Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the Lord.* |
| 2:2 | And the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Satan answered the Lord,* “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”* |
| 2:3 | Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly* to his integrity,* so that* you stirred me up to destroy him* without reason.”* |
| 2:4 | But* Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for* skin!* Indeed, a man will give up* all that he has to save his life!* |
| 2:5 | But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh,* and he will no doubt* curse you to your face!” |
| 2:6 | So the Lord said to Satan, “All right,* he is* in your power;* only preserve* his life.” |
| 2:7 | So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted* Job with a malignant ulcer* from the sole of his feet to the top of his head.* |
| 2:8 | Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape* himself* with while he was sitting* among the ashes.* |
| 2:9 | Then* his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity?* Curse* God, and die!”* |
| 2:10 | But he replied,* “You’re talking like one of the godless* women would do! Should we receive* what is good from God, and not also* receive* what is evil?”* In all this Job did not sin by what he said.* |
| 2:11 | When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country* – Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.* They met together* to come to show sympathy* for him and to console* him. |
| 2:12 | But when they gazed intently* from a distance but did not recognize* him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.* |
| 2:13 | Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain* was very great.* |
Job 2 - NET Bible [draft]
