5 But now, stretch out Your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will certainly curse You to Your face!”
6 Adonai said to the satan, “Very well, he is in your hand—only spare his life!”
7 So the satan departed from the presence of Adonai, and afflicted Job with painful boils, from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
8 He took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
9 Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 He said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Should we accept the good from God and not accept the bad?” Through all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11 When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had come upon him, each of them came from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come and mourn with him and to comfort him.