The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Job 1:17 (RSV)

While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, “The Chalde′ans formed three companies, and made a raid upon the camels and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

 

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Job 1:18 (RSV)

While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house;

 

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Job 1:19 (RSV)

and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

 

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Job 1:20 (KJV)
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

 

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Job 1:21 (RSV)

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

 

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Job 1:22 (RSV)

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

 

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Job 2:1 (KJV)
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

 

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Job 2:2 (NIV)

And the Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

 

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Job 2:3 (NIV)

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”

 

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Job 2:4 (AKJV)
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.

 

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Job 2:5 (AKJV)
But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.

 

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Job 2:6 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.'

 

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Job 2:7 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot even unto his crown.

 

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Job 2:8 (NASB)

And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

 

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Job 2:9 (NASB)

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

 

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Job 2:10 (WBT)
But he said to 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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Job 2:11 (HCSB)

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

 

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Job 2:12 (HCSB)

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

 

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Job 2:13 (ERV)
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.

 

[Deade]

Job 3:1 (NASB)

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.