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Job’s Blameless Behavior

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

Then[e] his wife said to him, “Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? Curse[f] God and die.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:7 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 2:7 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  3. Job 2:7 Literally “the faces of Yahweh”
  4. Job 2:8 Hebrew “And”
  5. Job 2:9 Hebrew “And”
  6. Job 2:9 Literally “Bless”—negative meaning by context