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And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

10 And he said to her: Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

11 Now when Job's three friends heard all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Alphas the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.

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His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity?(A) Curse God and die!”(B)

10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[a] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”(C)

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.(D)

11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,(E) Bildad the Shuhite(F) and Zophar the Naamathite,(G) heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:10 The Hebrew word rendered foolish denotes moral deficiency.