Catholic Public Domain Version

Job 2:2-9 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

2. So the Lord said to Satan, "Where do you come from?" Answering, he said, "I have circled the land, and walked around in it."

3. And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you not considered my servant, Job, that there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil, and still retaining his innocence? Yet you have stirred me against him, so that I would afflict him to no purpose."

4. Answering him, Satan said, "Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.

5. Yet send your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and then you will see whether or not he blesses you to your face."

6. Therefore, the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand, but even so, spare his life."

7. And so, Satan departed from the face of the Lord and he struck Job with a very serious ulcer from the sole of the foot all the way to the crown of his head.

8. So he took a shard of earthenware and scraped the discharge, while sitting on a heap of refuse.

9. But his wife said to him, "Do you still continue in your simplicity? Bless God and die."