22IN ALL THIS NOT HE SINNED JOB AND NOT HE ASCRIBE UNSEEMLINESS TO GOD 22In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
1AND IT WAS THE DAY AND THEY CAME [THE] SONS OF <THE> GOD TO PRESENT THEMSELVES ON YAHWEH AND HE CAME ALSO THE ADVERSARY IN MIDST OF THEM TO PRESENT HIMSELF ON YAHWEH Job Loses His Health 1On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan*NoteCloseThat is, the Accuser or the Adversary; here and throughout Job 2 also came with them to present himself before Him.
2AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO THE ADVERSARY WHERE? FROM THIS ARE YOU COMING AND HE ANSWERED THE ADVERSARY <OBJ.> YAHWEH AND HE SAID FROM ROVING ABOUT ON THE EARTH AND FROM GOING ABOUT ON IT 2“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied “and walking back and forth in it.”
3AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO THE ADVERSARY ¿ HAVE YOU SET HEART YOUR TO SERVANT MY JOB FOR THERE NOT [IS] LIKE HIM ON THE EARTH A MAN BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT FEARING <OF> GOD AND [WHO] TURNS ASIDE FROM EVIL AND STILL HE [IS] KEEPING HOLD ON INTEGRITY HIS AND YOU INCITED ME AGAINST HIM TO RUIN HIM WITHOUT CAUSE 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.”
4AND HE ANSWERED THE ADVERSARY <OBJ.> YAHWEH AND HE SAID SKIN FOR SKIN AND ALL THAT [BELONGS] TO THE MAN HE WILL GIVE FOR LIFE HIS 4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
5BUT STRETCH OUT PLEASE HAND YOUR AND TOUCH <TO> BONE HIS AND <TO> FLESH HIS IF NOT TO FACE YOUR HE WILL BLESS YOU 5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
6AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO THE ADVERSARY THERE HE [IS] IN HAND YOUR SURELY <OBJ.> LIFE HIS PRESERVE 6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
7AND HE WENT OUT THE ADVERSARY FROM WITH [THE] PRESENCE OF YAHWEH AND HE STRUCK <OBJ.> JOB WITH BOIL[S] BAD FROM [THE] SOLE OF FOOT HIS AND TO SCALP HIS 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 HE TOOK FOR HIMSELF A POTSHERD TO SCRAPE HIMSELF WITH IT AND HE [WAS] SITTING IN [THE] MIDST THE ASH[ES] 8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
9AND SHE SAID TO HIM WIFE HIS [ARE] STILL? YOU KEEPING HOLD ON INTEGRITY YOUR BLESS GOD AND DIE 9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse*NoteCloseOr Bless God and die!”
10AND HE SAID TO HER AS SPEAKS ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN YOU ARE SPEAKING ALSO <OBJ.> THE GOOD WILL WE ACCEPT? FROM WITH <THE> GOD AND <OBJ.> THE EVIL NOT WILL WE ACCEPT? IN ALL THIS NOT HE SINNED JOB WITH LIPS HIS 10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
11AND THEY HEARD [THE] THREE [THE] FRIENDS OF JOB <OBJ.> ALL THE EVIL <THE> THIS THAT IT HAD COME ON HIM AND THEY CAME EACH ONE FROM OWN PLACE HIS ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE AND BILDAD THE SHUHITE AND ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE AND THEY MET BY APPOINTMENT TOGETHER TO COME TO SHOW SYMPATHY TO HIM AND TO COMFORT HIM Job’s Three Friends 11Now when Job’s three friends— Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite— heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
12AND THEY LIFTED UP <OBJ.> EYES THEIR FROM A DISTANCE AND NOT THEY RECOGNIZED HIM AND THEY LIFTED UP VOICE THEIR AND THEY WEPT AND THEY TORE EACH ONE ROBE HIS AND THEY SPRINKLED DUST ON HEADS THEIR THE HEAVENS TOWARDS 12When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
13AND THEY SAT WITH HIM TO THE GROUND SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS AND NOT [ANYONE WAS] SPEAKING TO HIM A WORD FOR THEY SAW THAT IT WAS GREAT THE PAIN EXCEEDINGLY 13Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.