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Job chapter 2

One day came to , and came in among them to take his place before Yahweh.Yahweh said to the Accuser, “Where have you come from?” The Accuser answered Yahweh, “From , from walking up and down in it.”Yahweh said to the Accuser, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth — , , who and keeps clear of evil. He is still , even after you moved me against him to .”The Accuser answered Yahweh, “. A man will hand over everything he owns to keep .”“But reach out your hand and touch , and he will you to your face.”Yahweh said to the Accuser, “All right — he is . Only spare his life.”So the Accuser left Yahweh’s presence and struck Job with , from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.Job took to scrape himself with, and he sat down in .His wife said to him, “Are you ? God and die.”He said to her, “You’re talking the way talks. Are we going to take the good from God and not take too?” Through all of this, Job .Job’s three friends heard about all the disaster that had come on him, and each of them set out from his own home — , , . They agreed to go together and and .When they looked up from a distance, they did not recognize him. They broke out weeping, and each of them and .They sat with him on the ground , and not one of them said a word to him, because they saw .