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

10 So[c] he said to her, “You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but[d] not receive the evil?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

11 Thus[e] Job’s three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So[f] each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met[g] together to come to console him and to comfort him.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:9 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 2:9 Literally “Bless”—negative meaning by context
  3. Job 2:10 Hebrew “And”
  4. Job 2:10 Or “and”
  5. Job 2:11 Hebrew “And”
  6. Job 2:11 Hebrew “And”
  7. Job 2:11 Or “they agreed”