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Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on 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.”

Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

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.

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.

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.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

ثُمَّ ٱتَّفَقَ يَومًا أَن دَخَلَ بنو اللهِ لِيَمثُلوا أَمامَ الرَّبّ، ودَخَلَ الشَّيطانُ أَيضًا بَيْنَهُم لِيَمثُلَ أَمامَ الرَّبّ

فقالَ الرَّبُّ لِلشَّيطان: «مِن أَينَ أَقبَلتَ؟» فأَجابَ الشَّيطانُ وقالَ لِلرَّبّ: «مِنَ الطَّوافِ في الأَرضِ والتَّرَدُّدِ فيها»

فقالَ الرَّبُّ لِلشَّيطان: «أَمِلتَ بالَكَ إِلى عَبْدي أَيُّوب؟ فإِنَّه لَيسَ لَه مَثيلٌ في الأَرْض. إِنَّه رَجُلٌ كامِلٌ مُستَقيم يَتَّقي اللهَ ويُجانِبُ الشَّرّ، وإِلى الآنَ مُتَمَسِّكٌ بِكَمالِه، وقَد حَرَّضتَني على ٱبتِلاعِه بِدونِ سَبَب»

فأَجابَ الشَّيطانُ وقالَ لِلرَّبّ: «جِلْدٌ بِجِلْدٍ، وكُلُّ ما يَملِكُه الإِنسانُ يَبذُلُه عن نَفسِه

ولٰكِنِ ٱبسُطْ يَدَكَ وٱمسَسْ عَظْمَه ولَحْمَه، فتَرى أَلا يُجَدِّفُ عَلَيكَ في وَجهِكَ»

فقالَ الرَّبُّ لِلشَّيطان: «ها إِنَّه في يَدِكَ، ولٰكِنِ ٱحتَفِظْ بِنَفسِه»

فخَرَجَ الشَّيطانُ مِن أَمامِ وَجهِ الرَّبّ. وضَرَبَ الشَّيطانُ أَيُّوبَ بِقَرْحٍ خَبيثٍ مِن أَخمَصِ قَدَمِه إِلى قِمَّةِ رَأسِه

فأَخَذَ لَه خَزَفَةً لِيَحتَكَّ بِها وهو جالِسٌ على الرَّماد

فقالَت لَه ٱمرَأَتُه: «أَإِلى الآنَ مُتَمَسِّكٌ بِكَمالِكَ؟ جَدِّفْ على اللهِ ومُتْ»

فقالَ لَها: «إِنَّما كَلامُكِ كَلامُ إِحْدى الحَمْقاوات. أَنَقبَلُ الخَيرَ مِنَ اللهِ ولا نَقبَلُ مِنه الشَّرّ؟» في هٰذا كُلِّه لم يَخطَأْ أَيُّوبُ بِشَفَتَيه

وسَمِعَ ثَلاثَةُ أَصدِقاءَ لِأَيُّوبَ بِكُلِّ ما أَصابَه مِنَ البَلْوى، فأَقبَلَ كُلٌّ مِن مَكانِه، أَليفازُ التَّيمانِيّ وبِلدَدُ الشُّوحِيّ وصوفَرُ النَّعماتِيّ، وٱتَّفَقوا على أَن يأتوا فيَرْثوا لَه ويُعَزُّوه

فرَفَعوا أَبْصارَهم مِن بَعيدٍ فلَم يَعرِفوه. فرَفَعوا أَصْواتَهم وبَكوا، وشَقَّ كُلٌّ مِنهُم رِداءَه وذَرُّوا تُرابًا نَحوَ السَّماءِ فوق رُؤُوسِهم

وجَلَسوا معَه على الأَرضِ سَبعَةَ أَيَّامٍ وسَبعَ لَيالٍ، ولم يُكَلِّمْه أَحَدٌ بِكَلِمَة، لِأَنَّهم رَأَوا أَنَّ كآبَتَه كانَت شَديدةً جِدًّا