So I finally finished with the first two chapters and now I can go back and start Chapter 4. Rereading my notes along the way, I found the following quote “When only God remains, we learn God remains enough.” No idea where it came from, but I think it is a good take away from the book. The fun in this chapter was finding all the repeated phrases from the first chapter. I was entertained by it. Simple mind and all that. (Still working on punctuation on everything.)

Job Chapter 2

1 Again there was a day when the heavenly court came into the presence of Yahweh and the Accuser also came among them in the presence of Yahweh.

2 Yahweh said to the Accuser

Where are you coming from?

The Accuser answered Yahweh saying

From roaming the earth and walking about in it.

3 Yahweh said to the Accuser

Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth, a man blameless and upright, who reveres God and turn’s away from evil. He still holds fast to his integrity although you incited me against him to ruin him for no good reason.

4 The Accuser answered Yahweh

Skin for Skin. All that a man has, will he not give for the sake of his own life?

5 And yet, reach out your hand and strike his own person, will he not blaspheme You to Your Face?

6 Yahweh replied to the Accuser

Behold, he is in your power, only preserve his life

7 So the Accuser went forth from the presence of Yahweh and struck Job with a grievous burning rash from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

8 Job took a shard of broken pottery with which to scrape himself as he sat in the midst of the dung ash heap.

9 His wife said to him

Do you still hold fast to your integrity?

Blashpeme God, and die.

10 Then he said to her

You speak as an impious, foolish woman would speak

Shall we accept only good from the hand of God

And shall we not accept adversity?

Yet in all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

11 When Job’s three colleagues heard all these adversities that had befallen him, each one set out from his own place, Eliphaz the Teminite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, having arranged to meet together to go and mourn with him and to comfort him.

12 When they raised their eyes from afar and could not recognize him, they lifted up their voices and wept, they rent their robes and tossed dust over their heads towards heaven.

13 For seven days and seven nights they sat with him on the ground. No one spoke a word for they could see how very great was his agony.