| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. | 1One day the sons of God came again to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the LORD. |
| 2The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it." | 2The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" "From roaming through the earth," Satan answered Him, "and walking around on it." |
| 3The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause." | 3Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause." |
| 4Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. | 4"Skin for skin!" Satan answered the LORD. "A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life. |
| 5"However, put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face." | 5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face." |
| 6So the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life." | 6"Very well," the LORD told Satan, "he is in your power; only spare his life." |
| 7Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. | 7So Satan left the LORD's presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. |
| 8And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes. | 8Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes. |
| 9Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!" | 9His wife said to him, "Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!" |
| 10But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips. | 10"You speak as a foolish woman speaks," he told her. "Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?" Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said. |
| 11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one 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 comfort him. | 11Now when Job's three friends--Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. |
| 12When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky. | 12When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head. |
| 13Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great. | 13Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense. |
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