Job 2:1-9 ▼

1 One 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 The LORD asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” “From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

3 Then 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 “Skin for skin!” Satan answered the LORD. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

6 “Very well,” the LORD told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”

7 So 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 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.

9 His wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”