1 Certo dia, os anjos vieram outra vez à presença do Senhor, e Satanás, o acusador, veio com eles. 2 "De onde você vem?", perguntou o Senhor.

Satanás respondeu: "Estive rodeando a terra, observando o que nela acontece".

3 Então o Senhor perguntou: "Você reparou em meu servo Jó? Não há ninguém na terra como ele. É homem íntegro e correto, teme a Deus e se mantém afastado do mal. E não perdeu sua integridade, apesar de você me ter instigado a prejudicá-lo sem motivo".

4 Satanás respondeu: "Pele por pele! Um homem dará tudo que tem para salvar a própria vida. 5 Estende tua mão e tira a saúde dele, e certamente ele te amaldiçoará na tua face!".

6 "Pois bem", disse o Senhor. "Faça o que quiser com ele, mas poupe-lhe a vida." 7 Então Satanás saiu da presença do Senhor e causou em Jó feridas terríveis, da sola dos pés ao alto da cabeça.

8 Jó, sentado em meio a cinzas, raspava a pele com um caco de cerâmica. 9 Sua esposa lhe disse: "Você ainda tenta manter sua integridade? Amaldiçoe a Deus e morra!".

10 Jó respondeu: "Você fala como uma mulher insensata. Aceitaremos da mão de Deus apenas as coisas boas e nunca o mal?". Em tudo isso, Jó não pecou com seus lábios.

11 Quando três amigos de Jó souberam das tragédias que o haviam atingido, cada um saiu de onde vivia e os três foram juntos consolá-lo e animá-lo. Seus nomes eram Elifaz, de Temã, Bildade, de Suá, e Zofar, de Naamá. 12 Quando viram Jó de longe, mal o reconheceram. Choraram alto, rasgaram seus mantos e jogaram terra ao ar, sobre a cabeça. 13 Depois, sentaram-se no chão com ele durante sete dias e sete noites. Não disseram nada, pois viram que o sofrimento de Jó era grande demais.

1 Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh. 2 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

3 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. 5 But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

6 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."

7 So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes. 9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."

10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"

In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. 11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.