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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 2</title><link rel="canonical" href="//bibleapps.com/job/2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/1500-3ch.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 850px), only screen and (max-device-width: 850px)" href="/850-ch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/500s.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h450.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="40" scrolling="no" src="/mm/job/2-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div id="fx3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx4"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="51" scrolling="no" src="/homescreen.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="79" scrolling="no" src="//mbible.com/cm/job/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/">Job</a> > Chapter 2</div><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/job/1.htm" title="Job 1">◄</a> Job 2 <a href="/job/3.htm" title="Job 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div><font color="#001320"><b><i>Job Loses his Health</i></b></font><span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/job/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>1</b></span>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.</a> <a href="/job/2-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>2</b></span>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.</a> <a href="/job/2-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>3</b></span>And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? 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, to destroy him without cause.</a> <a href="/job/2-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>4</b></span>And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.</a> <a href="/job/2-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>5</b></span>But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.</a> <a href="/job/2-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>6</b></span>And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/job/2-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>7</b></span>So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.</a> <a href="/job/2-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>8</b></span>And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/job/2-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>9</b></span>Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.</a> <a href="/job/2-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>10</b></span>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.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><font color="#001320"><b><i>Job's Three Friends</i></b></font><span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="/job/2-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>11</b></span>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.</a> <a href="/job/2-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>12</b></span>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.</a> <a href="/job/2-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none"><span class="reftext"><b>13</b></span>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.</a> <span class="brk"><br><br></span><span class="brk"><br><br></span><a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible<br />© 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div><span class="reftext2">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/2-1.htm">Satan, appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job.</a></span><br><span class="reftext2">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/2-7.htm">He afflicts him with sore boils.</a></span><br><span class="reftext2">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/2-9.htm">Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God.</a></span><br><span class="reftext2">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/2-11.htm">His three friends console with him in silence.</a></span><br><div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/job/1.htm">Job 1: Job's Character and Wealth</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/2.htm">Job 2: Job Loses his Health</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/3.htm">Job 3: Job Laments his Birth </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/4.htm">Job 4: Eliphaz: the Innocent Prosper </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/5.htm">Job 5: Eliphaz Continues </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/6.htm">Job 6: Job Replies: My Complaint is Just </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/7.htm">Job 7: Job Continues: Life Seems Futile</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/8.htm">Job 8: Bildad: Job Should Repent </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/9.htm">Job 9: Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/10.htm">Job 10: Job's Plea to God </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/11.htm">Job 11: Zophar Rebukes Job</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/12.htm">Job 12: Job's Response to Zophar </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/13.htm">Job 13: Job Reproves his Friends</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/14.htm">Job 14: Job Acknowledges the Finality of Death</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/15.htm">Job 15: Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/16.htm">Job 16: Job: Poor Comforters Are You </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/17.htm">Job 17: Job Appeals From Men to God</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/18.htm">Job 18: Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/19.htm">Job 19: Job: My Redeemer Lives </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/20.htm">Job 20: Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked is Short</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/21.htm">Job 21: Job: God Will Deal with the Wicked</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/22.htm">Job 22: Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/23.htm">Job 23: Job Responds: He Longs for God</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/24.htm">Job 24: Job: Why Are the Wicked Unpunished </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/25.htm">Job 25: Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/26.htm">Job 26: Job: who Can Understand God's Majesty</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/27.htm">Job 27: Job Affirms his Integrity</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/28.htm">Job 28: The Earth's Treasures</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/29.htm">Job 29: Job's Former Blessings </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/30.htm">Job 30: Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/31.htm">Job 31: Job's Final Appeal </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/32.htm">Job 32: Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/33.htm">Job 33: Elihu Rebukes Job </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/34.htm">Job 34: Elihu Confirms God's Justice </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/35.htm">Job 35: Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/36.htm">Job 36: Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/37.htm">Job 37: Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty </a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/38.htm">Job 38: God Challenges Job</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/39.htm">Job 39: God Speaks of His Creation</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/40.htm">Job 40: Job Humbles Himself Before God</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/41.htm">Job 41: God's Power Shown in Creatures</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/42.htm">Job 42: Job Submits Himself to God</a><span class="brk"><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" 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