Job 2:1-7 ▼

1 And on a day the children of God came and stoode before the Lorde, and Satan came also among the, and stoode before the Lorde.

2 And the Lorde sayde vnto Satan: From whence commest thou? Satan aunswered the Lorde, and sayd: I haue gone about the lande, walked thorow it.

3 And the Lorde sayde vnto Satan: Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob? howe there is none like vnto hym in the earth, a perfect and a iust man? one that feareth God, and eschueth euil, & continueth still in his vprightnesse, although thou mouedst me against hym, to destroy him without cause.

4 And Satan aunswered the Lord, and sayd, Skinne for skinne, yea a man wil geue al that euer he hath for his life.

5 But lay thyne hande nowe vpon hym, and touch once his bone and his fleshe, and he shall curse thee to thy face.

6 And the Lord sayde vnto Satan: Lo, he is in thyne hand, but saue his lyfe.

7 So went Satan foorth from the presence of the Lorde, and smote Iob with sore byles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.