Job Loses His Health
The sons of God again present themselves before the LORD, and Satan comes among them. The LORD again points to Job as blameless and upright, adding that Job still holds fast to integrity though he has been ruined without cause.
O1n another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him. 2“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. 3Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
Satan answers that a man will surrender everything for his own life and insists that pain in Job's own flesh will bring him to curse God. The LORD allows Job to be placed in Satan's hand but forbids his life to be taken.
4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life. 5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.” 6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
Job is struck with painful boils from head to foot and sits among the ashes scraping himself with broken pottery. When his wife urges him to abandon integrity and curse God, Job rebukes her and says that adversity as well as good must be received, and in all this he does not sin with his lips.
7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. 8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes. 9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?”