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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Skin for skin!&#8221; Satan replied. &#8220;A man will give all he has for his own life. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.2.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Satan went out from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.2.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">His wife said to him, &#8220;Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.2.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;You are talking like a foolish</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered </span><span class="fq">foolish </span><span class="ft">denotes moral deficiency.</span></span></span><span class="content"> woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="content">In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When Job&#8217;s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, 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. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;May the day of my birth perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">and the night that said, &#8216;A boy is conceived!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">That day&#8212;may it turn to darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may God above not care about it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may no light shine on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may a cloud settle over it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may blackness overwhelm it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That night&#8212;may thick darkness seize it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">may it not be included among the days of the year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">nor be entered in any of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May that night be barren;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">may no shout of joy be heard in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May those who curse days</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">curse the sea</span></span></span><span class="content"> curse that day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May its morning stars become dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">may it wait for daylight in vain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">and not see the first rays of dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">to hide trouble from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why did I not perish at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">and die as I came from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why were there knees to receive me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">and breasts that I might be nursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now I would be lying down in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I would be asleep and at rest</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"></span></div>
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