5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
6 “Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”
7 So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.
9 His 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 only good from God and not adversity? ” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
11 Now when Job’s three friends — Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite — heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.