Today's reading we see Satan make his next move. Job's friends come to comfort him as well. Once thing that's fun about Job is that there are lots of suggestions and plays on words. Here, for instance, notice the narrator says, "Job did not sin with his lips," but leaves open the possibility that Job sinned in his heart.
God bless,
Sam
Job 2:7-13
7So Satan
went out from the presence of the Lord, and inflicted
loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8Job
took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes. 9Then
his wife said to him, “Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God, and
die.” 10But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would
speak. Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?”
In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11Now when Job’s
three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them
set out from his home—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the
Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him. 12When
they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their
voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon
their heads. 13They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven
nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was
very great.
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