{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/job/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T21:54:04.653Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":2,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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.|"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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.|"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Satan answered Yahweh, and said, |Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.|"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Yahweh said to Satan, |Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.|"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Then his wife said to him, |Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.|"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 2 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 2](https://primebible.com/web/job/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/2 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}