The big picture
The second heavenly exchange begins with the first accusation already defeated. Job still holds fast his integrity, and the LORD describes the earlier destruction as occurring "without cause." Satan therefore changes the proposed test from possessions to person, arguing that bodily suffering will succeed where bereavement and ruin did not. Permission expands, but a boundary remains: Job's life must be spared. The sores reduce the once prosperous man to ashes and a potsherd. His wife urges the very curse Satan predicted, and Job refuses her proposal while acknowledging that calamity has come from the hand of God. Then Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar arrive with a stated purpose to mourn and comfort. Their first response is not argument but shared grief. Unable at first even to recognize Job, they weep, tear their garments, scatter dust, and sit beside him in silence for seven days and nights.
Central truth
Job 2:1–10 deepens the test from possessions to Job’s body, yet the passage still calls him a man of integrity and records that he refuses to answer suffering by cursing God. Job 2:11–13 presents Job’s three friends at their wisest moment: they come intending to mourn and comfort, recognize suffering too great for easy speech, and sit with him in silence for seven days and nights.
The study notes have a page of their own
The movement by movement analysis, the words to trace, the verse by verse notes and where readers differ are written for someone studying alone. They are on the Deep Personal Reflections page for this chapter. This page is the lesson.
A chapter-specific teaching brief
These anchors come from this chapter itself. They help a teacher use the Level 1 overview, the Level 2 study, and the Scripture text as one lesson.
Open with the chapter’s first image
Job 2:1: “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.”
Slow down at the turning point
Job 2:5: “But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
Keep this word trail visible
LORD, Satan, evil, hand, curse, earth
What to explain, in order
Teach the passage in this order. Each step names the verses it rests on, so every point can be shown in the text before it is applied.
Job 2:1–10
Job 2:1-3
The same scene, a new verdict
Read 2:1-3 beside 1:6-8 and let the class find what repeats. Then underline the new words in 2:3: "still he holdeth fast his integrity" and "without cause". Teach this first because it is the Lord's own verdict after the first wave of loss. Integrity means wholeness, a life held together. The phrase "movedst me against him" is strong, and the class may stumble on it; say that the Book of Job lets the Lord speak this way and does not explain it, and that the point of the verse is that Job did nothing to deserve the loss.
Job 2:4-6
Skin for skin
Explain the proverb "Skin for skin" as a trader's phrase: a man will give one thing to keep another, and above all he will give anything to keep his own life. The adversary now claims that Job's calm in 1:21 was self-protection, and that if his own body is struck, his faith will break. Then read verse 6 and show that the Lord again sets a limit, "save his life". Teach this here so that the class sees the test move closer to Job himself, from his household to his skin, while remaining bounded.
Job 2:7-8
A body covered in sores
Read verses 7-8 plainly. The sores cover him from foot to head. He scrapes himself with a potsherd and sits "among the ashes", probably the place outside the town where refuse was burned, or simply ashes as a sign of mourning. Do not linger on the disease for effect; name it as long, painful and isolating. Learners who live with chronic illness will recognise this. This step comes here because the speeches that follow are spoken by a man in this condition, and the class should not forget it when Job's words grow sharp.
Job 2:9
His wife's counsel
Read verse 9 and explain both parts. "Dost thou still retain thine integrity" uses the same word the Lord used in verse 3, now as a question. The words "curse God, and die" urge the very thing the adversary predicted. Teach the counsel as wrong. Then teach the woman with care: every child lost in 1:19 was hers, and she is watching her husband suffer. The Book of Job gives her one verse and no further explanation. Do not supply one; do not turn her into a villain or the adversary's agent.
Job 2:10
Good and evil from the hand of God
Read Job's answer slowly. He rebukes the speech, "as one of the foolish women speaketh", and then asks a question that includes his wife: "shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" Explain evil here as harm or trouble, not moral wickedness. Then read the verdict, "In all this did not Job sin with his lips." Some readers think the mention of lips prepares for the later speeches; say that this is debated and keep to what the verse plainly says. The second test, like the first, has not broken him.
Job 2:11–13
Job 2:11
They hear, they agree, they come
Begin with what the friends do before they say anything. They hear of the evil that has come on Job, they arrange to meet, and they travel from their own places. Name the three: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite. Teman is linked with Edom and wisdom in Jeremiah 49:7; the other places are less certain. Teach this first because the class will be tempted to treat the friends as villains, and the Book of Job begins by showing them as faithful friends with a good purpose: to mourn and to comfort.
Job 2:12
They do not recognise him
Read verse 12 and stop at "knew him not". Explain that the disease of 2:7 has disfigured him. Then mark the three actions: weeping aloud, tearing their robes, throwing dust toward heaven so that it falls on their heads. Explain these as the ordinary signs of mourning, the same signs Job showed in 1:20. Teach this second because the friends' grief is real and visible. They are not spectators; they take on the posture of a mourner beside him.
Job 2:13
Seven days on the ground
Read verse 13 and let the numbers land: seven days and seven nights. Explain that seven days was the customary period of mourning for the dead, as with Joseph's mourning for Jacob in Genesis 50:10. The friends sit "upon the ground" with him and do not speak, "for they saw that his grief was very great." Teach this as the centre of the passage: the most helpful thing they do in the whole book is to stay and say nothing. This is the model the class should take away.
Job 2:11-13
What changes when they speak
Close by looking ahead, briefly. Read 3:1 to show that the silence is broken by Job, and then 4:7 to show how the first friend answers. Explain that the friends will move from mourning with Job to explaining him, and that the Lord will say in 42:7 that they did not speak rightly of him. Teach this last so the class leaves with both pictures: the friends at their best in chapter 2, and the warning that good companions can become poor counsellors when they claim to know what they cannot see.
Where learners get stuck
The misreadings this passage tends to produce, and how to answer each from the text.
Job 2:1–10
"Job got sick because God was angry with him."
Verse 3 says the opposite. The Lord praises Job's integrity and says the adversary moved him to destroy Job "without cause". Verse 7 says the adversary struck Job. The sores are part of the test, not a sentence. Say this clearly in any room where people are ill, because the friends will soon argue that Job's condition proves his guilt, and the Lord will say in 42:7 that they were wrong.
"Job's wife was on Satan's side."
The text never says so. She speaks once, in 2:9, and her counsel is wrong, but she is also a mother who has lost ten children in one day and is watching her husband scrape his sores in the ashes. Job rebukes her words as foolish speech and then says "we" in his question. Leave her where the Book of Job leaves her: a grieving woman who spoke badly once, not a symbol of evil.
"Shall we not receive evil means God does wicked things."
The Hebrew word translated evil covers harm, disaster and trouble as well as moral wrong. Here it is set against good, meaning blessing, so it means hardship. Job is saying that the God who gave blessing may also allow trouble, and that he will not abandon trust because trouble has come. The verse makes no claim that God is morally evil, and 2:10 says Job did not sin in saying it.
"A really faithful person would never be this sick."
Job is called perfect and upright three times before and after this passage, and he is struck with sores from head to foot. Faithfulness and illness sit together here by the Lord's own word. Learners with chronic illness may have been told that their sickness reveals weak faith. This passage gives no ground for that, and the book will later rebuke those who reason that way.
Job 2:11–13
"The friends were bad people from the beginning."
Verse 11 says they came "to mourn with him and to comfort him", by agreement and from far away. Verse 12 says they wept and tore their robes. Verse 13 says they sat with him for seven days. Nothing in 2:11-13 is criticised. The friends go wrong later, when they start explaining Job's suffering. Teach this carefully, because a class that sees the friends as villains will miss the warning that good people can give harmful counsel.
"Being silent means you have nothing to offer."
Verse 13 gives the reason for the silence: "for they saw that his grief was very great." The silence is a response to the size of the grief, and it is the part of their visit the book leaves uncriticised. In 16:2 Job will call their words "miserable comforters", but he never complains of the seven days. Silent presence is offered here as something given, not as something lacking.
"Sitting with someone for a while means you then have the right to tell them what went wrong."
The friends sit for seven days and then speak, and what they say is rebuked in 42:7. Time spent with a sufferer does not give anyone knowledge of the cause. Read 4:7-8 beside 2:13 and show that the seven days did not teach Eliphaz what the reader learned in 1:6-12. Presence earns trust; it does not earn a verdict on someone else's pain.
Learning objectives
- Compare the second heavenly scene with Job 1:6–12.
- Explain the force of the Lord’s statement in verse 3 that Job still holds fast his integrity after the first test.
- Describe the adversary’s 'skin for skin' challenge.
- Identify Job’s bodily condition and the ash-heap setting in verses 7–8.
- Read Job’s wife’s words within the shared catastrophe.
- Explain the distinction in verse 10 between receiving good and receiving evil.
- Name Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar and identify the purpose for which they arrange to come to Job.
- Describe the friends’ first reaction when they see Job from a distance.
- Identify the mourning actions the friends share with Job before anyone begins to argue.
- Explain why the seven days and nights of silence matter for the transition into Job 3.
- Distinguish compassionate presence in verses 11–13 from the explanations the friends later offer.
- State what the passage teaches about the scale of Job’s grief.
Teacher preparation
- Read Job 1:6–2:10 as one continuous movement.
- Prepare to explain 'skin for skin' as the adversary’s claim that a person will surrender anything else to preserve his own life.
- Review what Job’s wife has lost before discussing verse 9. She has also lost children and household security.
- Note the KJV phrase 'sore boils' from the sole of Job’s foot to his crown and the potsherd in verse 8. The bodily suffering is comprehensive in description even though the precise medical diagnosis is not supplied.
- Keep the final clause of verse 10 visible: 'In all this did not Job sin with his lips.' That sentence must govern evaluation of Job’s reply.
- Read Job 2:11–3:5 so the class hears the silent week end in Job’s first lament rather than treating verses 11–13 as an isolated inspirational scene.
- Locate Teman, Shuah, and Naamah only as far as responsible reference material allows.
- Mark the verbs in verses 11–13: hear, come, mourn, comfort, lift, know not, weep.
- Prepare to explain that seven days and seven nights echoes a complete period of mourning.
- Do not make the friends fools too early. Here, their silence is wiser than many later speeches.
Evidence and interpretation checks
Explicit
Job 2:3 says Job still holds fast his integrity. Verse 11 names Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar and says they make an appointment together to mourn with Job and comfort him.
Scripture-supported
Job’s integrity is not merely self-claimed. The friends’ later words must not erase the good recorded here.
Strong inference
The second challenge narrows the adversary’s argument. The seven-day silence recognizes that ordinary conversational scale is inadequate to what they see.
Possible or traditional reading
Many readers interpret Job’s ash heap as a refuse or communal ash place outside the settlement. The seven-day period is often compared with later formal mourning periods.
Limit
The passage does not identify Job’s disease, does not say his wife is untouched by grief. The passage does not say the friends understand why Job suffers, does not endorse their later arguments.
Discussion with answer guidance
1. What sentence in verse 3 proves that the first disaster did not expose hidden wickedness in Job?
What a good answer contains
The Lord repeats the portrait of 1:8 and then adds "and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause" (2:3). That sentence comes after the losses of chapter 1. A strong answer says the first test exposed nothing hidden: Job's integrity held, and the Lord says so. It also notices the phrase "without cause", which rules out any punishment explanation. A weak answer quotes only the repeated portrait and misses the new clause.
Show teacher guidance
Require 'still he holdeth fast his integrity.' The Lord’s evaluation comes after the first wave of loss.
2. How does the second accusation differ from the first one in chapter 1?
What a good answer contains
In chapter 1 the charge was that Job's faith depended on his possessions and protection. Now it is "Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life" (2:4): a man will give up anything to save himself, so touch "his bone and his flesh" (2:5) and he will curse God. A good answer names the shift from what Job has to who Job is, his own body. A weak answer says the second accusation is simply the first one repeated, and misses that it claims Job's earlier worship was self-protection.
Show teacher guidance
The first challenge targeted possessions and blessing.
3. What limit remains even after the Lord permits bodily affliction?
What a good answer contains
Verse 6: "Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life." The boundary moves closer but it does not disappear. A strong answer says the Lord still sets the limit, and the adversary still goes out "from the presence of the LORD" (2:7) to act within it. A weak answer says the adversary now has unlimited power over Job, which verse 6 directly denies, or makes the Lord the one who strikes, which 2:7 does not say.
Show teacher guidance
Verse 6 says Job is in the adversary’s hand, but his life must be spared.
4. What do the potsherd and ashes contribute to the scene?
What a good answer contains
Job is struck with "sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown" (2:7), and he takes a potsherd, a broken piece of pottery, "to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes" (2:8). A good answer sees the misery and isolation: he is using rubbish to scrape a body covered in sores, sitting where refuse was burned or where mourners sat. A weak answer either makes the scene grotesque for effect or treats it as a symbol and forgets that it describes a man in physical pain.
Show teacher guidance
They show Job actively coping with painful skin disease in a place associated with ashes.
5. How should the class read Job’s wife’s line without either excusing it or turning her into a caricature?
What a good answer contains
Her words are "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die" (2:9). Name the counsel as wrong: it is the very outcome the adversary predicted. But remember that the ten children who died in 1:19 were her children too, and every loss of chapter 1 was hers. A strong answer holds both: the counsel is rejected, and the woman who gives it is a bereaved mother. A weak answer either calls her the adversary's tool, which the text never says, or excuses the words entirely.
Show teacher guidance
Name the counsel exactly, then remember the losses of chapter 1 also belong to her household.
6. What does Job actually call foolish in verse 10?
What a good answer contains
He says "Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh" (2:10). He does not call her a fool; he says her words are like those of the foolish, a word that in Scripture means one who disregards God. Then he asks "shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" Note the "we": he includes her in the question. A good answer sees a rebuke of the speech and not of the person. A weak answer reads verse 10 as Job despising his wife.
Show teacher guidance
He says she speaks 'as one of the foolish women speaketh.' He rebukes the speech.
7. What do the friends intend to do before they ever see Job?
What a good answer contains
Verse 11 says they "had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him." Two purposes, agreed beforehand, and each friend comes "from his own place", so they have travelled. A strong answer notices that the friends begin with the right intention and take trouble to fulfil it. A weak answer reads the later speeches back into this verse and assumes they came to accuse him, which the text does not say.
Show teacher guidance
Verse 11 gives two purposes: mourn with him and comfort him.
8. What detail in verse 12 shows how drastically Job’s appearance has changed?
What a good answer contains
They "lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not" (2:12): they see him from a distance and cannot recognise the man they knew. A good answer connects this to the sores of 2:7: Job's body is so changed that his oldest friends do not know him. A weak answer passes over it, but the detail tells the class why the friends weep and why they fall silent.
Show teacher guidance
They lift up their eyes afar off and 'knew him not.' Let the class feel how bodily suffering has altered the man they came to see.
9. Which mourning actions do the three friends perform together?
What a good answer contains
Verse 12: they "lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven." Verse 13: they "sat down with him upon the ground". A strong answer lists all four and sees that each matches something Job did in 1:20 or 2:8: the torn robe, the ground, the dust. They join him in his mourning rather than standing over it. A weak answer counts the actions without seeing that they are acts of solidarity.
Show teacher guidance
Expect weeping, torn mantles, dust on their heads, and sitting on the ground.
10. Why does verse 13 explicitly tell us they do not speak?
What a good answer contains
Verse 13 gives the reason: "none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great." Their silence is a response to what they see. A good answer says this is the friends' wisest moment, because they recognise that no speech is equal to this grief. A weak answer treats the silence as awkwardness or as the absence of anything to say, rather than as the respect the verse says it is.
Show teacher guidance
Verse 13 gives the reason: they saw that Job’s grief was very great.
11. How does the silence prepare for Job 3 rather than conclude the problem?
What a good answer contains
Silence does not solve Job's suffering; it makes room for it to be spoken. In 3:1, "After this opened Job his mouth", and what comes is lament, not resolution. A strong answer sees that the seven days are the threshold of the book, not its end. The friends' silence lets Job speak first, which is right. The question is whether they will listen to what he says. A weak answer treats 2:13 as if it closed the matter.
Show teacher guidance
After seven days, Job opens his mouth and laments.
12. What changes when the friends move from Job 2 into their speeches later in the book?
What a good answer contains
In 2:11-13 they mourn, weep and sit with Job. From chapter 4 onward they explain him. Eliphaz begins with "who ever perished, being innocent?" (4:7). Their role shifts from witnesses to judges. A good answer names this change and points to 42:7, where the Lord says they "have not spoken of me the thing that is right". A weak answer says the friends were wrong from the start, which ignores what this passage commends.
Show teacher guidance
Their role shifts from companions who witness suffering to interpreters who increasingly claim to know its moral cause.
Responsible application
Heart and habits
Compare Job 1:22 with Job 2:10. Identify how the Book of Job evaluates Job after each stage of the test and what aspect of sin each verdict names.
Relationships and community
Examine the exchange in verses 9–10 and list what a teacher may say about Job’s wife with confidence, then list what must remain unknown.
The body enters the debate
Describe how the move from external loss to bodily pain changes the pressure of the test.
The discipline of not explaining
Compare the friends’ seven silent days with one later accusation from the debates.
Session plans
Two timings of the same lesson. The shorter keeps the reading, the central discussion and one response; the longer gives the confusions and the application their own time.
Job 2:1–10
45 minutes
Spot the repetition
Read 2:1-3 and 1:6-8 side by side. Have the group mark what repeats and what is new, then take question one.
Skin for skin
Read 2:4-6. Take questions two and three, keeping the limit of verse 6 in view.
In the ashes
Read 2:7-8 and take question four. Use confusions one and four for anyone who links illness to guilt.
Husband and wife
Read 2:9-10. Take questions five and six, then confusions two and three.
Two verdicts
Place 1:22 beside 2:10 and do the first application together.
Handout and prayer
Read the key verse and pray for those who are ill and those who care for them.
90 minutes
Loss and pain
Ask whether losing what you have or suffering in your own body is harder. Take answers without settling it.
The second scene
Read 2:1-3 with 1:6-8. Take question one and spend time on "without cause". Take confusion one.
The second accusation
Read 2:4-6. Take questions two and three. Explain the proverb and the limit.
Sores and ashes
Read 2:7-8 and question four. Then confusion four, with care for anyone living with illness.
Job's wife
Read 2:9-10 twice. Take questions five and six, then confusions two and three. Do the second application: what may be said of her with confidence and what must remain unknown.
Two verdicts
Compare 1:22 with 2:10 and discuss the words "with his lips" without forcing a conclusion.
The body in the debate
Do the third application, then read 19:17-20 briefly to hear how Job later describes his body.
Handout and prayer
Read the key verse, point to the take-home line, and pray for the sick and for their carers.
Job 2:11–13
45 minutes
Where we are
Read 2:7-10 briefly so the friends arrive into the full scene, then read 2:11 and take question one.
Knew him not
Read 2:12 and take questions two and three. List each mourning action and match it to 1:20 or 2:8.
Seven days
Read 2:13. Take question four and confusion two, and keep a minute of silence as a group.
Silence broken
Read 3:1 and 4:7. Take questions five and six, then confusion three.
One response
Do the second application: a short protocol for visiting a grieving person, using only actions from 2:11-13.
Handout and prayer
Read the key verse and pray for someone who is grieving now.
90 minutes
What helped you
Ask the group what helped them most when they were grieving or ill, and what did not. List both, without names.
The friends set out
Read 2:11 and take question one. Note the three names and Jeremiah 49:7 on Teman. Take confusion one.
Mourning with him
Read 2:12 and questions two and three. Match each action to Job's own in 1:20 and 2:8.
The seven days
Read 2:13 and Genesis 50:10. Take question four and confusion two. Compare the list from the opening with what the friends did.
From silence to speech
Read 3:1, 4:7-8 and 16:2. Take questions five and six, then confusion three.
Application
Do the second and third applications in pairs: a visiting protocol from 2:11-13, and a comparison of the seven days with one later accusation.
Practise the silence
Ask each pair to sit in silence for two minutes, then talk about how hard it was and why.
Handout and prayer
Read the key verse, point to the take-home line, and pray for those who mourn and those who visit them.
Adapting the lesson
Job 2:1–10
Children
Explain that Job became very sick with sores all over his skin and was in a lot of pain. Ask how they feel when they are ill and who looks after them. Read verse 10 simply: Job said God gives good things and we still trust him when hard things come. Leave out the adversary's words in verses 4-5 and do not make Job's wife the bad person.
Youth
Ask whether they have known someone who stayed kind through a long illness. Then read 2:4-5 and ask whether the adversary is right that people will give anything to save themselves. Spend time on 2:9-10, and help them see the wife as a grieving mother as well as someone who spoke wrongly. Some will have family members who are ill; keep space for that without requiring it.
Adults
Give time to the move from possessions to the body, and to the phrase "without cause" in 2:3. Adults caring for a sick spouse may recognise both voices in 2:9-10, the despair and the steadiness. Discuss the word evil in verse 10 carefully. Do not let the session become a lesson on marriage roles; keep it on suffering, speech and integrity.
One to one
If the person is ill or in chronic pain, read 2:7-8 and let them say what it is like for them. Then read 2:3 and point to "without cause". Do not use verse 10 to tell them to accept their pain quietly. If they are a carer who has said hard words in exhaustion, read 2:9-10 and let Job's "we" show that he did not cast his wife off.
Job 2:11–13
Children
Tell children that Job's three friends heard he was sad and sick, and travelled a long way to be with him. When they saw him, they cried, and then they sat on the ground with him for seven days without talking. Ask how they can be a good friend to someone who is sad. Practise sitting quietly beside someone for a short time.
Youth
Ask what they say when a friend is going through something terrible, and whether the words help. Then read 2:13 and talk about what it would take to sit with someone for a week and say nothing. Youth often feel they must fix things with words or messages. Show them that the book commends the silence and later rebukes the explanations. Keep any shared experiences voluntary.
Adults
Give time to the cultural background of mourning: seven days, dust, torn robes. Then talk honestly about visiting the grieving, the urge to speak, and the things people say at funerals that wound. Use 4:7 to show how quickly good comfort can turn into explanation. Adults who have been hurt by such words may need time to say so.
One to one
If the person is grieving, you may simply read 2:13 together and then sit with them in quiet for a while. Ask whether anyone has sat with them like this. If they are the visitor, wanting to know what to say to someone else, read 2:11-13 and help them see that being there matters more than having the right words.
Song and video learning lab
A song or video may interpret, compress, or dramatize the text. Its value becomes clearer when its choices are compared with Scripture.
- Before the media: the exact passage and its central movement.
- During the media: the words, people, events, and emotions the artist emphasizes.
- After the media: what it clarifies, what it leaves out, and what belongs back in the biblical text.
Handout
One page for learners to take home. The print button prints this section alone.
Job 2:1–10
The passage in brief
Job 2:1-10 records a second test. The Lord again calls Job blameless and says he still holds on to his integrity, though he was struck without cause. The adversary says that a man will give anything to save his own life, and that if Job's body is struck he will curse God. The Lord allows it but forbids him to take Job's life. Job is covered in painful sores and sits among the ashes. His wife tells him to curse God and die, but Job answers that we should accept trouble as well as good from God.
A verse to keep
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.
Job 2:10 · King James Version
Questions to take home
What does the Lord say in verse 3 that shows Job's suffering was not a punishment?
Why do you think Job's wife spoke as she did, and how did Job answer her?
What helps you keep trusting God when your body is weak or in pain?
This week
Visit, call or write to someone who is ill this week, and do not offer them a reason for their suffering.
Job 2:11–13
The passage in brief
Job 2:11-13 tells how Job's three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, heard about his troubles and agreed to come and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance they did not recognise him. They wept aloud, tore their robes and threw dust on their heads. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, and no one said a word, because they saw how great his grief was.
A verse to keep
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.
Job 2:13 · King James Version
Questions to take home
What did the friends plan to do before they saw Job?
Why do you think they said nothing for seven days?
Who do you know who needs someone to be with them more than to talk to them?
This week
Spend time with someone who is suffering this week and let your presence speak before your words do.
Music and video connected to the passage
Related media appears when its Scripture reference overlaps this study. Music and video can illuminate a theme while the biblical text remains the foundation.
