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Job Chapter 2

Job
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Job

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In this chapter God speaks to Job and instructs him to be at peace, reminding him that God will keep him. He explains that God’s purpose for Job is to test him and to show his own righteousness. The chapter ends with God promising that He will protect Job and keep him.

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(1) Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
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Job 1:6Isaiah 6:1Isaiah 6:2Luke 1:19Hebrews 1:14

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Judges 3:18I Corinthians 5:3Job 1:6

(2) And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
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Genesis 16:8Job 1:7John 14:30II Corinthians 4:4I Peter 5:8

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Job 1:7Job 1:12Zechariah 3:2Matthew 12:26Mark 3:23Zechariah 6:7

(3) And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
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Job 1:1Job 1:8Job 9:20Genesis 6:9Psalms 37:37Philippians 3:12I Peter 5:10Proverbs 11:8Proverbs 13:6Proverbs 14:2Proverbs 15:8Proverbs 16:17

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Job 1:8Zechariah 8:19Proverbs 11:3Job 1:1I John 4:18Mark 2:18

(4) And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
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Esther 7:3Esther 7:4Isaiah 2:20Isaiah 2:21Jeremiah 41:8Matthew 6:25Matthew 16:26Acts 27:18Acts 27:19Philippians 3:8Philippians 3:9Philippians 3:10

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Leviticus 13:2Leviticus 13:3Leviticus 13:4Leviticus 13:12Leviticus 13:34Leviticus 13:39

(5) But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
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Job 1:11Job 19:20Job 19:21I Chronicles 21:17Psalms 32:3Psalms 32:4Psalms 38:2Psalms 38:3Psalms 38:4Psalms 38:5Psalms 38:6Psalms 38:7

(6) And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
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Job 1:12Job 38:10Job 38:11Psalms 65:7Luke 8:29Luke 8:30Luke 8:31Luke 8:32Luke 8:33Luke 22:31Luke 22:32I Corinthians 10:13

(7) So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
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I Kings 22:22Job 30:17Job 30:18Job 30:19Job 30:30Exodus 9:9Exodus 9:10Exodus 9:11Deuteronomy 28:27Deuteronomy 28:35Revelation 16:11Isaiah 1:6

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II Samuel 16:19Job 1:12Deuteronomy 28:35II Samuel 14:25Ezekiel 1:7Job 1:5

(8) And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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Job 19:14Job 19:15Job 19:16Job 19:17Psalms 38:5Psalms 38:7Luke 16:20Luke 16:21Job 42:6II Samuel 13:19Isaiah 61:3Ezekiel 27:30

(9) Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
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Genesis 3:6Genesis 3:12I Kings 11:4Job 2:3Job 21:14Job 21:15II Kings 6:33Malachi 3:14Job 2:5Job 1:11

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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Ezekiel 33:8Romans 14:8

(10) But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
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Genesis 3:17II Samuel 19:22Matthew 16:23II Samuel 6:20II Samuel 6:21II Samuel 13:13II Samuel 24:10II Chronicles 16:9Proverbs 9:6Proverbs 9:13Matthew 25:2Job 1:1

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II Kings 5:26Matthew 10:41Matthew 19:12Mark 9:37Luke 6:34Luke 9:48

(11) Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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Job 6:14Job 16:20Job 19:19Job 19:21Job 42:7Proverbs 17:17Proverbs 18:24Proverbs 27:10Job 6:19Job 15:1Genesis 36:11Genesis 36:15

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Job 42:9Job 42:7

(12) And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
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Job 19:14Ruth 1:19Ruth 1:20Ruth 1:21Lamentations 4:7Lamentations 4:8Genesis 27:34Judges 2:4I Samuel 11:4I Samuel 30:4II Samuel 13:36Esther 4:1

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 8:5Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4

(13) So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
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Ezra 9:3Nehemiah 1:4Isaiah 3:26Isaiah 47:1Genesis 1:5Genesis 1:8Genesis 50:10Job 4:2Psalms 77:4

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