Job 2:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ Job^[a] took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself while sitting among the ashes.

Job Refuses to Curse God

⁹ Then his wife told him, “Do you remain firm in your integrity? Curse God and die!”

¹⁰ But he replied to her, “You’re talking like foolish women do. Are we to accept^[b] what is good from God but not tragedy?”

Throughout all of this, Job did not sin by what he said.^[c]