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So[a] Yahweh said to Satan,[b]All right,[c] he is in your power.[d] Only spare his life.”

Job’s Blameless Behavior

So[e] Satan[f] went out from Yahweh’s presence,[g] and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head. So[h] he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:6 Literally “And it happened the/one day”
  2. Job 2:6 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  3. Job 2:6 Literally “Look”
  4. Job 2:6 Literally “hand”
  5. Job 2:7 Hebrew “And”
  6. Job 2:7 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  7. Job 2:7 Literally “the faces of Yahweh”
  8. Job 2:8 Hebrew “And”