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Text -- Job 2:1-13 (NET)

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Satan’s Additional Charge
2:1 Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the Lord. 2:2 And the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.” 2:3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.” 2:4 But Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life! 2:5 But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!” 2:6 So the Lord said to Satan, “All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”
Job’s Integrity in Suffering
2:7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the sole of his feet to the top of his head. 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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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Bildad the Shuhite man who was a friend of Job
 · Eliphaz son of Esau,a man of Teman who was a friend of Job
 · Job a man whose story is told in the book of Job,a man from the land of Uz in Edom
 · Naamathite a resident of the town of Naamah
 · Satan a person, male (evil angelic),an angel that has rebelled against God
 · Shuhite a resident of the town of Shuah
 · Temanite resident(s) of the region of Teman
 · Zophar a Naamathite man who was a friend of Job


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Satan | God | Faith | Afflictions and Adversities | Temptation | Job | JOB, BOOK OF | Naamathite | Friendship | Zophar | Bildad | Shuhite | Sympathy | Potsherd | Mourning | Accusation, False | Boil | INTEGRITY | Lies and Deceits | Faithfulness | more
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NET Notes: Job 2:1 This last purpose clause has been omitted in some Greek versions.

NET Notes: Job 2:2 See the note on this phrase in 1:7.

NET Notes: Job 2:3 Once again the adverb חִנָּם (khinnam, “gratis”) is used. It means “graciously, gratis, free, wi...

NET Notes: Job 2:4 Heb “Indeed, all that a man has he will give for his life.”

NET Notes: Job 2:5 This is the same oath formula found in 1:11; see the note there.

NET Notes: Job 2:6 The irony of the passage comes through with this choice of words. The verb שָׁמַר (shamar) means “to keep; t...

NET Notes: Job 2:7 Heb “crown.”

NET Notes: Job 2:8 Among the ashes. It is likely that the “ashes” refers to the place outside the city where the rubbish was collected and burnt, i.e., the a...

NET Notes: Job 2:9 The imperative with the conjunction in this expression serves to express the certainty that will follow as the result or consequence of the previous i...

NET Notes: Job 2:10 Heb “sin with his lips,” an idiom meaning he did not sin by what he said.

NET Notes: Job 2:11 The second infinitive is from נָחָם (nakham, “to comfort, console” in the Piel). This word may be derived fr...

NET Notes: Job 2:12 Heb “they tossed dust skyward over their heads.”

NET Notes: Job 2:13 The three friends went into a more severe form of mourning, one that is usually reserved for a death. E. Dhorme says it is a display of grief in its m...

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