Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Jehovah.
And Jehovah said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? {Or, that}for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, {Hebrew: to swallow him up.}to destroy him without cause.
And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.
So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the {Or, impious}foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his {Or, pain}grief was very great.
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To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend; {Or, Else might he forsake Or, But he forsaketh}Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
The caravans of Tema looked,The companies of Sheba waited for them.
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him: every man also gave him a {Hebrew: kesitah.}piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.
But ye are forgers of lies;Ye are all physicians of no value.
My friends scoff at me:But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
I have heard many such things: {Or, Wearisome}Miserable comforters are ye all.
All {Hebrew: the men of my council.}my familiar friends abhor me,And they whom I loved are turned against me.
And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, {In 1 Chronicles 1:36, Zephi}Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;For the hand of God hath touched me.
These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.
and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Of Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.
A friend loveth at all times;And {Or, is born as a brother}a brother is born for adversity.
And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is {Or, glorified}honored, all the members rejoice with it.
{Hebrew: A man of friends.}He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction;But there is a {Hebrew: lover.}friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity:Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.