5. But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see whether he will curse you to your face.”
6. So Yahweh said to Satan, “All right, he is in your power. Only spare his life.”
7. So Satan went out from Yahweh’s presence, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.
8. So he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.
9. Then his wife said to him, “Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? Curse God and die.”
10. So he said to her, “You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.
11. Thus Job’s three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.
12. Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads toward the sky.
13. Then they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very great.