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1또 하루는 하나님의 아들들이 와서 여호와 앞에 서고 사단도 그들 가운데 와서 여호와 앞에 서니 2여호와께서 사단에게 이르시되 네가 어디서 왔느냐 사단이 여호와께 대답하여 가로되 땅에 두루 돌아 여기 저기 다녀왔나이다 3여호와께서 사단에게 이르시되 네가 내 종 욥을 유의하여 보았느냐 그와 같이 순전하고 정직하여 하나님을 경외하며 악에서 떠난 자가 세상에 없느니라 네가 나를 격동하여 까닭없이 그를 치게 하였어도 그가 오히려 자기의 순전을 굳게 지켰느니라 4사단이 여호와께 대답하여 가로되 가죽으로 가죽을 바꾸오니 사람이 그 모든 소유물로 자기의 생명을 바꾸올지라 5이제 주의 손을 펴서 그의 뼈와 살을 치소서 그리하시면 정녕 대면하여 주를 욕하리이다 6여호와께서 사단에게 이르시되 내가 그를 네 손에 붙이노라 오직 그의 생명은 해하지 말지니라 7사단이 이에 여호와 앞에서 물러가서 욥을 쳐서 그 발바닥에서 정수리까지 악창이 나게 한지라 8욥이 재 가운데 앉아서 기와 조각을 가져다가 몸을 긁고 있더니 9그 아내가 그에게 이르되 당신이 그래도 자기의 순전을 굳게 지키느뇨 하나님을 욕하고 죽으라 10그가 이르되 그대의 말이 어리석은 여자 중 하나의 말 같도다 우리가 하나님께 복을 받았은즉 재앙도 받지 아니하겠느뇨 하고 이 모든 일에 욥이 입술로 범죄치 아니하니라 11때에 욥의 친구 세 사람이 그에게 이 모든 재앙이 임하였다 함을 듣고 각각 자기 처소에서부터 이르렀으니 곧 데만 사람 엘리바스와 수아 사람 빌닷과 나아마 사람 소발이라 그들이 욥을 조문하고 위로하려 하여 상약하고 오더니 12눈을 들어 멀리 보매 그 욥인줄 알기 어렵게 되었으므로 그들이 일제히 소리질러 울며 각각 자기의 겉옷을 찢고 하늘을 향하여 티끌을 날려 자기 머리에 뿌리고 13칠 일 칠 야를 그와 함께 땅에 앉았으나 욥의 곤고함이 심함을 보는고로 그에게 한 말도 하는 자가 없었더라

1Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh. 2Yahweh 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.” 3Yahweh 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.” 4Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. 5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.” 6Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.” 7So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. 8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes. 9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.” 10But 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. 11Now 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. 12When 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. 13So 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.

1Wederom was er een dag, als de kinderen Gods kwamen, om zich voor den HEERE te stellen, dat de satan ook in het midden van hen kwam, om zich voor den HEERE te stellen. 2Toen zeide de HEERE tot den satan: Van waar komt gij? En de satan antwoordde den HEERE, en zeide: Van om te trekken op de aarde, en van die te doorwandelen. 3En de HEERE zeide tot den satan: Hebt gij ook acht geslagen op Mijn knecht Job? Want niemand is op de aarde gelijk hij, een man, oprecht en vroom, godvrezende en wijkende van het kwaad; en hij houdt nog vast aan zijn oprechtigheid, hoewel gij Mij tegen hem opgehitst hebt, om hem te verslinden zonder oorzaak. 4Toen antwoordde de satan den HEERE, en zeide: Huid voor huid, en al wat iemand heeft, zal hij geven voor zijn leven. 5Doch strek nu Uw hand uit, en tast zijn gebeente en zijn vlees aan; zo hij U niet in Uw aangezicht zal zegenen! 6En de HEERE zeide tot den satan: Zie, hij zij in uw hand, doch verschoon zijn leven. 7Toen ging de satan uit van het aangezicht des HEEREN, en sloeg Job met boze zweren, van zijn voetzool af tot zijn schedel toe. 8En hij nam zich een potscherf, om zich daarmede te schrabben, en hij zat neder in het midden der as. 9Toen zeide zijn huisvrouw tot hem: Houdt gij nog vast aan uw oprechtigheid? Zegen God, en sterf. 10Maar hij zeide tot haar: Gij spreekt als een der zottinnen spreekt; ja, zouden wij het goede van God ontvangen, en het kwade niet ontvangen? In dit alles zondigde Job met zijn lippen niet. 11Als nu de drie vrienden van Job gehoord hadden al dit kwaad, dat over hem gekomen was, kwamen zij, ieder uit zijn plaats, Elifaz, de Themaniet, en Bildad, de Suhiet, en Zofar, de Naamathiet; en zij waren het eens geworden, dat zij kwamen om hem te beklagen, en om hem te vertroosten. 12En toen zij hun ogen van verre ophieven, kenden zij hem niet, en hieven hun stem op, en weenden; daartoe scheurden zij een ieder zijn mantel, en strooiden stof op hun hoofden naar den hemel. 13Alzo zaten zij met hem op de aarde, zeven dagen en zeven nachten; en niemand sprak tot hem een woord, want zij zagen, dat de smart zeer groot was.