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.

1 En op 'n dag toe die seuns van God kom om hulle voor die HERE te stel, het die Satan ook onder hulle gekom om hom voor die HERE te stel.

2 Toe vra die HERE vir die Satan: Waar kom jy vandaan? En die Satan antwoord die HERE en sê: Van 'n swerftog oor die aarde, wat ek deurkruis het.

3 En die HERE vra vir die Satan: Het jy ag gegee op my kneg Job? Want daar is niemand op die aarde soos hy nie: 'n man vroom en opreg, godvresend en wat afwyk van die kwaad; en hy volhard nog in sy vroomheid, alhoewel jy My teen hom opgehits het om hom te vernietig sonder oorsaak.

4 Toe het die Satan die HERE geantwoord en gesê: Huid vir huid, en alles wat iemand het, sal hy gee vir sy lewe;

5 maar strek net u hand uit en tas sy gebeente en sy vlees aan -- waarlik, hy sal U in u aangesig seën!

6 En die HERE sê aan die Satan: Kyk, hy is in jou hand; spaar net sy lewe.

7 En die Satan het weggegaan van die aangesig van die HERE, en hy het Job met bose swere getref, van sy voetsool tot sy skedel.

8 En hy het vir hom 'n potskerf geneem om hom daarmee te krap, terwyl hy in die as sit.

9 Toe sê sy vrou vir hom: Volhard jy nog in jou vroomheid? Seën God, en sterf!

10 Maar hy antwoord haar: Soos 'n dwaas praat, praat jy! Die goeie sou ons van God aanneem, en nie ook die slegte aanneem nie? By dit alles het Job nie gesondig met sy lippe nie.

11 En toe die drie vriende van Job hoor van al hierdie onheile wat hom getref het, het hulle gekom, elkeen uit sy woonplek: lifas, die Temaniet, en Bildad, die Suhiet, en Sofar, die Naämatiet; en hulle het volgens afspraak byeengekom om hom hul deelneming te betuig en hom te troos.

12 En toe hulle op 'n afstand hul oë opslaan en hom nie herken nie, het hulle hul stem verhef en geween; ook het hulle elkeen sy mantel geskeur en stof op hul hoofde gestrooi na die hemel toe.

13 En hulle het by hom op die grond gaan sit, sewe dae en sewe nagte lank, sonder dat iemand 'n woord met hom gepraat het; want hulle het gesien dat die smart baie groot was.