(KJV) Job 21

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⥃Job Loses His Health

[1] Again2 there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord. [2] And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence3 comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going4 to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. [3] And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou5 considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright6 man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth7 fast his integrity, although thou movedst8 me against him, to destroy him9 without10 cause. [4] And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that11 a man hath will he give for his life. [5] But put forth12 thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse13 thee to thy face. [6] And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold14, he [is] in thine hand; but15 save16 his life17.

[7] So went18 Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils19 from the sole20 of his foot unto his crown. [8] And he took him21 a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat22 down among the ashes.

[9] [¶]Then said his wife23 unto him, Dost thou still retain24 thine integrity? curse God25, and die. [10] But he said unto her, Thou speakest26 as one27 of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive28 good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this29 did not Job sin with his lips.

⥃Job’s Three Friends

[11] Now when Job’s three friends30 heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite31, and Bildad the Shuhite32, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come33 to mourn with him and to comfort34 him. [12] And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him35 not, they lifted up their voice36, and wept; and they rent37 every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon38 their heads toward heaven. [13] So they sat39 down with him upon the ground seven days40 and seven nights, and none spake41 a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great.

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  1. Job 2:1, Satan appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job; Job 2:7, He smites him with sore boils; Job 2:9, Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God; Job 2:11, His three friends console with him in silence. ↩

  2. Job 1:6; Isa 6:1-2; Luke 1:19; Heb 1:14 ↩

  3. Gen 16:8 ↩

  4. Job 1:7; John 14:30; 2Cor 4:4; 1Pet 5:8 ↩

  5. Job 1:1, Job 1:8, Job 9:20; Gen 6:9; Ps 37:37; Phil 3:12; 1Pet 5:10 ↩

  6. Prov 11:8, Prov 13:6, Prov 14:2, Prov 15:8, Prov 16:17 ↩

  7. Job 1:21-22, Job 13:15, Job 27:5-6; Ps 26:1, Ps 41:12; Jas 1:12; 1Pet 1:7 ↩

  8. Job 1:11 ↩

  9. Heb. swallow him up, 2Sam 20:20 ↩

  10. Job 9:17; John 9:3 ↩

  11. Esth 7:3-4; Isa 2:20-21; Jer 41:8; Matt 6:25, Matt 16:26; Acts 27:18-19; Phil 3:8-10 ↩

  12. Job 1:11, Job 19:20-21; 1Chr 21:17; Ps 32:3-4, Ps 38:2-7, Ps 39:10 ↩

  13. Job 2:9, Job 1:5, Job 1:11; Lev 24:15; Isa 8:21 ↩

  14. Job 1:12 ↩

  15. or, only ↩

  16. Job 38:10-11; Ps 65:7; Luke 8:29-33, Luke 22:31-32; 1Cor 10:13; Rev 2:10; Rev 20:1-2, Rev 20:7 ↩

  17. By naphsho, "his soul," Maimonides understands "his mind," or intellectual powers. ↩

  18. 1Kgs 22:22 ↩

  19. Shechin ra, supposed to be the Judham, or black leprosy, of the Arabs, termed Elephantiasis by the Greeks, from its rendering the skin, like that of the elephant, scabrous, dark coloured, and furrowed all over with tubercles. This loathsome and most afflictive disease is accompanied with most intolerable itching. Job 30:17-19, Job 30:30; Exod 9:9-11; Deut 28:27, Deut 28:35; Rev 16:11 ↩

  20. Isa 1:6, Isa 3:17 ↩

  21. Job 19:14-17; Ps 38:5, Ps 38:7; Luke 16:20-21 ↩

  22. Job 42:6; 2Sam 13:19; Isa 61:3; Ezek 27:30; Jonah 3:6; Matt 11:21 ↩

  23. Gen 3:6, Gen 3:12; 1Kgs 11:4 ↩

  24. Job 2:3, Job 21:14-15; 2Kgs 6:33; Mal 3:14 ↩

  25. Job 2:5, Job 1:11 ↩

  26. Gen 3:17; 2Sam 19:22; Matt 16:23 ↩

  27. 2Sam 6:20-21, 2Sam 13:13, 2Sam 24:10; 2Chr 16:9; Prov 9:6, Prov 9:13; Matt 25:2 ↩

  28. Job 1:1-3, Job 1:10, Job 1:21; 2Sam 19:28; Lam 3:38-41; John 18:11; Rom 12:12; Heb 12:9-11; Jas 5:10 ↩

  29. Job 1:22; Ps 39:1, Ps 59:12; Matt 12:34-37; Jas 3:2 ↩

  30. Job 6:14, Job 16:20, Job 19:19, Job 19:21, Job 42:7; Prov 17:17, Prov 18:24, Prov 27:10 ↩

  31. Job 6:19, Job 15:1; Gen 36:11, Gen 36:15; Jer 49:7 ↩

  32. Job 8:1, Job 18:1; Gen 25:2; 1Chr 1:32 ↩

  33. Job 42:11; Gen 37:35; Isa 51:19; John 11:19; Rom 12:15; 1Cor 12:26; Heb 13:3 ↩

  34. Job 13:4, Job 16:2 ↩

  35. Job 19:14; Ruth 1:19-21; Lam 4:7-8 ↩

  36. Gen 27:34; Judg 2:4; 1Sam 11:4, 1Sam 30:4; 2Sam 13:36; Esth 4:1 ↩

  37. Job 1:20 ↩

  38. Neh 9:1; Lam 2:10; Ezek 27:30; Rev 18:19 ↩

  39. Ezra 9:3; Neh 1:4; Isa 3:26, Isa 47:1 ↩

  40. Gen 1:5, Gen 1:8, Gen 50:10 ↩

  41. Job 4:2; Ps 77:4 ↩