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Texts -- Job 2:8-13 (NET)

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2:8 Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes . 2:9 Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity ? Curse God , and die !” 2:10 But he replied , “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do ! Should we receive what is good from God , and not also receive what is evil ?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said .
The Visit of Job’s Friends
2:11 When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country – Eliphaz the Temanite , Bildad the Shuhite , and Zophar the Naamathite . They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him. 2:12 But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly . Each of them tore his robes , and they threw dust into the air over their heads . 2:13 Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights , yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great .

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  • 2:17-18 Paul and his companions had to leave Thessalonica prematurely, and for Paul the separation was an especially sorrowful one. He compared it to being bereft (lit. orphaned). He felt torn from his spiritual children. How...
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