Job 2
1On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
2“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
3Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
11Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
12When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
13Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
3“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
5Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury:
6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
7I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
10Therefore be wise, O kings; be admonished, O judges of the earth.
11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.