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Seven Days without a Word
Job 2:1-13
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Job 2: The boundary moves, and the friends sit down
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.
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