Job 2

Job 2:1

D. Scene IV: HeavenThe Lord’s Presence Again (2:1-6)In chapter 2, we find Satan appearing before the LORD once again. This time Satan implies that Job’s faithfulness to God would soon vanish if he were allowed to touch his body. Permission to do so is granted.

Job 2:7

E. Scene V: UzCalamity to Job’s Person (2:7-13)2:7-10 Job, thereupon, breaks out with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. So great is his misery that even his wife urges him to “Curse God and die!” But Job answers her, “Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” Regarding Job’s wife, Harold St. John quotes the following paragraph: I think of all the cruel and one-sided things that masculine commentators have written about Job’s wife, and I almost despair of my sex; it takes a woman to understand a woman, and it is reserved for a lady writer (I think that her name was Louise Haughton) to discern that as long as Job’s wife could share in his sorrows she bore up bravely, but as soon as he enters a fresh chamber of suffering and leaves her outside, then she breaks down: for her the one intolerable woe is that which she is forbidden to share with him. 2:11-13 Shortly after this, three of Job’s friends hear of his adversity and determine to visit him with words of comfort. The friends are Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. However, when they see Job’s pitiful and wretched condition, they are so shocked that they are unable to speak to him for seven days and seven nights!