Job 2
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Satan obtains leave to try Job
Verse 1
WEB Again it happened on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.
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.
Verse 2
WEB Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
KJV And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
TSK From whence: ge 16:8; From going: job 1:7, joh 14:30, 2co 4:4, 1pe 5:8
Verse 3
WEB Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
KJV And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
TSK Hast thou: job 1:1,8, job 9:20, ge 6:9, ps 37:37, php 3:12, 1pe 5:10; an upright: pr 11:8, pr 13:6, pr 14:2, pr 15:8, pr 16:17; holdeth: job 1:21,22, job 13:15, job 27:5,6, ps 26:1, ps 41:12, jas 1:12, 1pe 1:7; thou movedst: job 1:11; destroy him: 2sa 20:20; without: job 9:17, joh 9:3
Verse 4
WEB Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
KJV And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
TSK all that: es 7:3,4, isa 2:20,21, jer 41:8, mt 6:25, mt 16:26, ac 27:18,19, php 3:8-10
Verse 5
WEB But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
KJV But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
TSK put forth: job 1:11, job 19:20,21, 1ch 21:17, ps 32:3,4, ps 38:2-7, ps 39:10; He will curse: job 2:9, job 1:5,11, le 24:15, isa 8:21
Verse 6
WEB Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
KJV And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
TSK Behold: job 1:12; save: job 38:10,11, ps 65:7, lu 8:29-33, lu 22:31,32, 1co 10:13, re 2:10, re 20:1,2,7
Job's troubles and pain
Verse 7
WEB So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
KJV So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
TSK So went: 1ki 22:22; sore boils: job 30:17-19,30, ex 9:9-11, de 28:27,35, re 16:11; from the sole: isa 1:6, isa 3:17
Verse 8
WEB He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
KJV And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
TSK took him: job 19:14-17, ps 38:5,7, lu 16:20,21; he sat: job 42:6, 2sa 13:19, isa 61:3, eze 27:30, jon 3:6, mt 11:21
Verse 9
WEB Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
KJV Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
TSK his wife: ge 3:6,12, 1ki 11:4; retain: job 2:3, job 21:14,15, 2ki 6:33, mal 3:14; curse God: job 2:5, job 1:11
Verse 10
WEB But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
KJV 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.
TSK Thou speakest: ge 3:17, 2sa 19:22, mt 16:23; as one: 2sa 6:20,21, 2sa 13:13, 2sa 24:10, 2ch 16:9, pr 9:6,13, mt 25:2; shall we receive: job 1:1-3,10,21, 2sa 19:28, la 3:38-41, joh 18:11, ro 12:12, heb 12:9-11, jas 5:10; In all this: job 1:22, ps 39:1, ps 59:12, mt 12:34-37, jas 3:2

His friends come to comfort him
Verse 11
WEB Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
KJV 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: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
TSK friends: job 6:14, job 16:20, job 19:19,21, job 42:7, pr 17:17, pr 18:24, pr 27:10; Temanite: job 6:19, job 15:1, ge 36:11,15, jer 49:7; Shuhite: job 8:1, job 18:1, ge 25:2, 1ch 1:32; to come: job 42:11, ge 37:35, isa 51:19, joh 11:19, ro 12:15, 1co 12:26, heb 13:3; to comfort: job 13:4, job 16:2
Verse 12
WEB When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
KJV 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 mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
TSK knew him: job 19:14, ru 1:19-21, la 4:7,8; their voice: ge 27:34, jud 2:4, 1sa 11:4, 1sa 30:4, 2sa 13:36, es 4:1; they rent: job 1:20; sprinkled dust upon: ne 9:1, la 2:10, eze 27:30, re 18:19
Verse 13
WEB So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
KJV 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.
TSK they sat: ezr 9:3, ne 1:4, isa 3:26, isa 47:1; seven days: ge 1:5,8, ge 50:10; none spake: job 4:2, ps 77:4