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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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" /><title>Job 2 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><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="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Job 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><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" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job’s Second Test</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>One day the members of the heavenly court<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> came again to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> came with them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Where have you come from?” the LORD asked Satan.</p><p class="reg">Satan answered the LORD, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the LORD asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged me to harm him without cause.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Satan replied to the LORD, “Skin for skin! A man will give up everything he has to save his life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But reach out and take away his health, and he will surely curse you to your face!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“All right, do with him as you please,” the LORD said to Satan. “But spare his life.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So Satan left the LORD’s presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.</p><p class="hdg">Job’s Three Friends Share His Anguish</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:1a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the sons of God.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">2:1b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">and the satan;</span><span class="ft"> similarly throughout this chapter.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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