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Job 2:1–6 – Second heavenly court and further testing

What happens: The heavenly court meets again. Satan claims Job’s loyalty will break if his health is attacked. God permits Satan to strike Job’s body but commands that Job’s life be spared.

What it means: God sets the limits of every trial. Satan aims to sever faith, but God uses testing to refine it. Human suffering is not always the fruit of personal sin. God’s sovereignty and goodness stand even when pain intensifies.

Job 2:7–10 – Bodily affliction and the wife’s counsel

What happens: Satan strikes Job with painful boils from head to foot. Job sits in ashes and scrapes himself with pottery. His wife urges him to curse God and die. Job replies that they must receive both good and trouble from God. He does not sin with his lips.

What it means: Sickness can tempt us to despair and bitter speech. Faith acknowledges God in both comfort and hardship. Marriage is tested by suffering, and words can either wound or strengthen. Patient trust honors God’s character.

Job 2:11–13 – The friends arrive and sit in silence

What happens: Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar come to comfort Job. They hardly recognize him and weep. They sit with him on the ground seven days and say nothing because his grief is very great.

What it means: Presence can be the best early comfort. Compassion starts with shared tears before words. God calls his people to bear one another’s burdens. Silence can honor pain when answers are not yet clear.

Application

  • Ask God to set holy limits on your trials and steady your heart within them.
  • Guard your speech in pain and speak to God before speaking about God.
  • Offer practical presence to the suffering. Sit, weep, and listen before advising.
  • Support your spouse and friends with faith shaped words, not despair.

Bible

1Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

2And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

3And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

4And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

6And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

7So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

13So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

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