1 Again the day came when the sons of God came to take their stand before the LORD, and Satan too came among them to take his stand before the LORD.
2 The LORD said to Satan, "From where do you come?" And Satan answered the LORD, "From roving about on the earth and walking around in it."
3 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you set your mind on my servant Job? There is none like him on earth: a man blameless and upright, who fears God and turns from evil. He still clings to his integrity, though you stirred me up against him to swallow him up for no cause."
4 Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! Everything a man has he will give for his life.
5 But put out your hand now and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your very face."
6 And the LORD said to Satan, "See, he is in your power; only preserve his life."
7 Then Satan left the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
8 Job took a potsherd to scratch himself with, as he sat in the midst of the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, "Do you still cling to your integrity? Curse God and die."
10 He said to her, "You speak as one of the senseless women would speak. Shall we receive the good from God, and not receive the evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11 When Job's three friends heard of all this harm that had come on him, they set out each from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, having arranged together to come and grieve with him and console him.
12 Seeing him from far off, they did not know him; and they lifted up their voices and wept. Each of them tore his robe, and they tossed dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13 They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw how very great his pain was.