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CHAPTER 2
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the L
ORD
, and Satan
came also among them to present himself before the L
ORD
.
2
And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, From
whence comest thou? And Satan answered the L
ORD
, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.
3
And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my
servant Job, that
there is
none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth
God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against
him, to destroy him without cause.
4
And Satan answered the L
ORD
, and said, Skin for skin, yea,
all that a man hath will he give for his life.
5
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and
his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
6
And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, Behold, he
is
in thine
hand; but save his life.
7
So went Satan forth from the presence of the L
ORD
, and smote Job with sore boils from the
sole of his foot unto his crown.
8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat
down among the ashes.
9
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10
But
he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the 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.
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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:
for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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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 mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13
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
grief was very great.
CHAPTER 3
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2
And Job spake, and said,
3
Let the day perish
wherein I was born, and the night
in which
it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4
Let that
day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5
Let darkness
and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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As
for
that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not
come into the number of the months.
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Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Let the stars of
the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but
have
none; neither let it see the dawning of the
day:
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Because it shut not up the doors of my
mother’s
womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb?
why
did I
not
give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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