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 Num dia em que os filhos de Deus vieram apresentar-se perante Jeová, sucedeu vir também Satanás entre eles apresentar-se perante Jeová.

2 Perguntou Jeová a Satanás: Donde vens? Respondeu Satanás a Jeová: De rodear a terra e de passear por ela.

3 Disse Jeová a Satanás: Acaso notaste o meu servo Jó? pois não há ninguém semelhante a ele na terra, homem íntegro e reto, que teme a Deus e que se desvia do mal. Ele ainda conserva a sua integridade embora me incitasses contra ele, para o consumir sem causa.

4 Respondeu Satanás a Jeová: Pele por pele, tudo quanto o homem tem dará pela sua vida.

5 Mas estende a mão agora, e toca-lhe nos ossos e na carne, e ele te renunciará à tua face.

6 Disse Jeová a Satanás: Eis que ele está ao teu dispor; somente poupa-lhe a vida.

7 Saiu Satanás da presença de Jeová, e feriu a Jó de úlceras malignas desde a planta do pé até o alto da cabeça.

8 Jó, sentado em cinza, tomou um caco para com ele se raspar.

9 Sua mulher disse-lhe: Conservas tu ainda a tua integridade? renuncia a Deus e morre.

10 Mas ele lhe disse: Estás falando como fala uma mulher tola. Que? receberemos o bem da mão de Deus, e não receberemos o mal? Em tudo isso não pecou Jó com os seus lábios.

11 Tendo ouvido três amigos de Jó todo este mal que lhe havia sucedido, vieram, cada um do seu lugar; Elifaz temanita, Bildade suíta e Zofar naamatita. Tinham combinado para irem condoer-se dele e consolá-lo.

12 Tendo de longe olhado para ele, e não o conhecendo, levantaram a voz e choraram; e rasgou cada um o seu manto, lançando pó ao ar sobre a sua cabeça.

13 Sentaram-se com ele na terra sete dias e sete noites, e nenhum deles lhe dizia palavra; pois viam que a dor era mui grande.