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Then the Lord told Satan, “Very well then, he is under your control.[a] Just preserve his life.”[b]

So Satan left the Lord’s presence and struck Job with terrible boils from the sole of his feet to the top of his head. Job[c] took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself while sitting among the ashes.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:6 Lit. hand
  2. Job 2:6 Lit. his soul
  3. Job 2:8 Lit. He