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Job 2:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

His wife said to him, ‘Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die! ’

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But stretch out your hand and strike  his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.’


Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity,  who fears God and turns away from evil.  He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.’


You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements  and walking mournfully  before the Lord of Armies?


But stretch out your hand and strike  everything he owns, and he will surely curse you to your face.’


While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger  came down to him. Then he said, ‘This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer? ’


The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.


When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.


The man replied,  ‘The woman you gave to be with me #– #she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.’


Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name,  and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.  )


Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.


‘You speak as a foolish woman speaks,’ he told her. ‘Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ’ Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.


She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and at last, on the seventh day, he explained it to her, because she had nagged him so much. Then she explained it to her people.





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