Chapter 2

Satan by God's permission, ℣.7 striketh Job with sores from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. ℣.9 His wife also insulteth against him, but he sinneth not. ℣.11 Three friends coming to visit and comfort him, sit silent by him seven days.

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   And it came to pass when on a certain day the sons of God were come and stood before our Lord, and Satan came among them, and stood in his sight,

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   that our Lord said to Satan: From whence comest thou? Who answering said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

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   And our Lord, said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is not the like to him in the earth, a man simple, and right, and fearing God, and departing from evil, and yet retaining innocency? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him in vain.

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   To whom Satan answering, said: Skin for skin, and all things that a man hath, he will give for his life:

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   otherwise put thy hand, and touch his bone and flesh, and then shalt thou see that he will bless thee in the face.

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   Our Lord therefore said to Satan: Behold he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.

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   Satan therefore going out from the face of our Lord, struck Job with a very sore boil, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

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   who with a shell scraped the corruption, sitting on a dunghill.

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   And his wife said to him: Doest thou yet continue in thy simplicity? Bless God and die.

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    Who said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things of the hand of God, evil things why should we not receive? In all these things Job sinned not with his lips.

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    Therefore Job's three friends hearing all the evil, that had chanced to him, came every one out of their place, Eliphaz a Themanite, and Baldad a Suhite, and Sophar a Naamathite. For they had appointed, that coming together they would visit him, and comfort him.

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    And when they had lifted up their eyes a far off, they knew him not, and crying out they wept, and renting their cloths sprinkled dust over their head toward heaven.

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    And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no man spake to him a word: for they saw the pain to be vehement.