¹約伯第二次受試煉又有一天，　神的眾子都來侍立在耶和華面前，撒但也來到他們中間，侍立在耶和華面前。

¹Again it happened on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

²耶和華問撒但：“你從哪裡來？”撒但回答說：“我在地上徘徊，走來走去。”

²Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

³耶和華問撒但：“你有沒有注意到我的僕人約伯？世上再也沒有一個人像他那樣完全、正直，敬畏　神，遠離罪惡。雖然你挑撥我與他作對，無緣無故使他傾家蕩產，他還是堅守自己的純全。”

³Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

⁴撒但回答耶和華說：“人以皮換皮，寧可付出他所有的一切去保命。

⁴Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

⁵只要你伸手傷害他的骨和肉，他一定當面褻瀆你。”

⁵But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

⁶耶和華對撒但說：“好吧，他在你手中，不過，要留存他的命。”

⁶Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

⁷於是撒但從耶和華面前退去，擊打約伯，使他從腳掌到頭頂都生了毒瘡。

⁷So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

⁸約伯坐在灰燼中，拿瓦片刮自己。

⁸He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

⁹他妻子對他說：“難道你還要堅守自己的純全嗎？你不如放棄　神，死掉算了。”

⁹Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

¹⁰可是約伯對她說：“你說話像個愚妄的女人。難道我們從　神得福，也不應當受禍嗎？”在這一切事上，約伯並沒有用口犯罪。

¹⁰But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

¹¹三友的慰問約伯的三個朋友，提幔人以利法、書亞人比勒達、拿瑪人瑣法，聽到這一切降在他身上的災禍，就各從自己的地方出發，相約而來對他表同情，安慰他。

¹¹Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

¹²他們從遠處舉目觀望，竟認不出他來，就放聲大哭，各自撕裂外袍，向天揚起塵土，落在自己頭上。

¹²When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

¹³他們就七天七夜與他一起坐在地上，沒有人向他說一句話，因為他們看出他極其痛苦。

¹³So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.