| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1One day the sons of God came again to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the LORD. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" "From roaming through the earth," Satan answered Him, "and walking around on it." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Skin for skin!" Satan answered the LORD. "A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Very well," the LORD told Satan, "he is in your power; only spare his life." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So Satan left the LORD's presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9His wife said to him, "Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"You speak as a foolish woman speaks," he told her. "Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?" Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now when Job's three friends--Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense. |
|
    |