Job 2

1 On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

1 又有一天，众天使来朝见耶和华，撒旦也在他们当中。

2 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

2 耶和华问撒旦：“你从哪里来？”撒旦答道：“我在地上到处游走。”

3 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

3 耶和华问道：“你注意到我的仆人约伯了吗？世上没有人像他那样纯全正直，敬畏我，远离罪恶。虽然你鼓动我无缘无故地攻击他、毁灭他，他仍然持守自己的纯正。”

4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

4 撒旦回答说：“人会以皮换皮，为了保全生命，情愿舍弃一切。

5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

5 倘若你伸手伤害他的骨和肉，他必当面亵渎你。”

6 “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

6 耶和华说：“好吧，他在你手中，但要留他一命。”

7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

7 于是，撒旦从耶和华面前退去，开始加害约伯，使他从头到脚长毒疮。

8 And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

8 约伯坐在炉灰中，拿瓦片刮身体。

9 Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

9 他的妻子对他说：“你还要持守自己的纯正吗？不如亵渎上帝，死掉算了！”

10 “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

10 但约伯回答说：“你说话像个愚昧的妇人。难道我们只从上帝手里接受祝福，却不接受灾殃吗？”约伯遭此不幸，仍没有犯言语之罪。

11 Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

11 约伯的三个朋友提幔人以利法、书亚人比勒达和拿玛人琐法听到他的不幸遭遇，便各自从家乡动身，相约一起来探望、安慰他。

12 When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

12 他们远远地看见约伯，几乎认不出是他，禁不住放声大哭，各自撕裂外袍，扬起尘土，让土落在头上。

13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

13 他们看到约伯极其痛苦，就陪着他在地上坐了七天七夜，没有对他说一句话。