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Job 2:1-10 (CEV)

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¹ When the angels gathered around the LORD again, Satan was there with them, ² and the LORD asked, "Satan, where have you been?" Satan replied, "I have been going all over the earth." ³ Then the LORD asked, "What do you think of my servant Job? No one on earth is like him--he is a truly good person, who respects me and refuses to do evil. And he hasn't changed, even though you persuaded me to destroy him for no reason." ⁴ Satan answered, "There's no pain like your own. People will do anything to stay alive. ⁵ Try striking Job's own body with pain, and he will curse you to your face." ⁶ "All right!" the LORD replied. "Make Job suffer as much as you want, but just don't kill him." ⁷ Satan left and caused painful sores to break out all over Job's body--from head to toe. ⁸ Then Job sat on the ash-heap to show his sorrow. And while he was scraping his sores with a broken piece of pottery, ⁹ his wife asked, "Why do you still trust God? Why don't you curse him and die?" ¹⁰ Job replied, "Don't talk like a fool! If we accept blessings from God, we must accept trouble as well." In all that happened, Job never once said anything against God.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 10) Thankfulness - Should we accept good but not bad from God

Definition(s):
Job (Johb): he that weeps or cries
Satan (Seh-tan): contrary; adversary; enemy; accuser