Berean Standard Bible

Job 2:8

“And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.”

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⁶“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

⁷So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

⁸And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

⁹Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

¹⁰“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

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