Job 2 (NET)

Job 2:1¹Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 1:6Heb 1:14Luke 1:19

Job 2:2²And the Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:8Job 1:72 Cor 4:4Gen 16:8John 14:30

Job 2:3³Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:12Job 1:8Job 27:5-6Job 9:171 Pet 1:7Prov 16:17John 9:3Phil 3:121 Pet 5:10Job 1:1

Job 2:4⁴But Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:8-10Matt 6:25Matt 16:26Jer 41:8Esth 7:3-4Acts 27:18-19

Job 2:5⁵But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 1:11Job 1:5Job 19:20-21Lev 24:15Isa 8:21Job 2:9Ps 32:3-4Ps 38:2-7Ps 39:101 Chr 21:17

Job 2:6⁶So the Lord said to Satan, “All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:13Luke 22:31-32Job 1:12Rev 2:10Job 38:10-11Luke 8:29-33Ps 65:7Rev 20:1-2Rev 20:7

Job 2:7⁷So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:35Isa 1:6Job 30:30Deut 28:27Job 7:51 Kgs 22:22Exod 9:9-11Isa 3:17Job 30:17-19Rev 16:11

Job 2:8⁸Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 42:6Ezek 27:30Jonah 3:6Matt 11:21Luke 16:20-21Ps 38:52 Sam 13:19Jer 6:26Job 19:14-17Ps 38:7

Job 2:9⁹Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 2:3Job 2:52 Kgs 6:33Mal 3:141 Kgs 11:4Gen 3:6Job 1:11Job 21:14-15Gen 3:12

Job 2:10¹⁰But he replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:12Lam 3:38-41Job 1:21-22Rom 12:12Jas 5:10-11Heb 12:9-11Matt 16:23John 18:11Matt 12:34-372 Sam 24:10

Job 2:11¹¹When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country —Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 12:15Job 42:11Gen 25:2Jer 49:7Job 6:14Prov 17:171 Cor 12:261 Chr 1:32Gen 36:11Gen 36:15

Job 2:12¹²But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 2:10Ezek 27:30Josh 7:6Neh 9:1Job 1:201 Sam 11:41 Sam 30:42 Sam 13:36Esth 4:1Gen 27:34

Job 2:13¹³Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 50:10Neh 1:4Ezek 3:15Isa 3:26Ezra 9:3Gen 1:5Gen 1:8Job 4:2Ps 77:4Isa 47:1