Job Loses His Health
On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan 1also came with them to present himself before Him. Job 1:6Heb 1:14Luk 1:19Isa 6:1-2
“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. 1Pe 5:8Jhn 14:30Job 1:72Co 4:4Gen 16:8
“From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
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.” Jas 1:12Job 1:8Job 27:5-6Job 9:171Pe 1:7Pro 16:17Jhn 9:3Php 3:12
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life. Php 3:8-10Mat 6:25Mat 16:26Jer 41:8Est 7:3-4Act 27:18-19Isa 2:20-21 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.” Job 1:11Job 1:5Job 19:20-21Lev 24:15Isa 8:21Job 2:9Psa 32:3-4Psa 38:2-7
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.” 1Co 10:13Luk 22:31-32Job 1:12Rev 2:10Job 38:10-11Luk 8:29-33Psa 65:7Rev 20:1-2
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. Deu 28:35Isa 1:6Job 30:30Deu 28:27Job 7:51Ki 22:22Exo 9:9-11Isa 3:17 And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes. Job 42:6Ezk 27:30Jon 3:6Mat 11:21Luk 16:20-21Psa 38:52Sa 13:19Jer 6:26
Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse 2God and die!” Job 2:3Job 2:52Ki 6:33Mal 3:141Ki 11:4Gen 3:6Job 1:11Job 21:14-15
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” Jas 1:12Lam 3:38-41Job 1:21-22Rom 12:12Jas 5:10-11Heb 12:9-11Mat 16:23Jhn 18:11
In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Job’s Three Friends
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. Rom 12:15Job 42:11Gen 25:2Jer 49:7Job 6:14Pro 17:171Co 12:261Ch 1:32
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. Lam 2:10Ezk 27:30Jos 7:6Neh 9:1Job 1:201Sa 11:41Sa 30:42Sa 13:36 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. Gen 50:10Neh 1:4Ezk 3:15Isa 3:26Ezr 9:3Gen 1:5Gen 1:8Job 4:2