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.

¹A zase sa stalo jedného dňa, keď prišli synovia Boží, aby sa postavili pred Hospodinom, že prišiel medzi nimi aj Satan, aby sa postavil pred Hospodinom.

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.”

²A Hospodin riekol Satanovi: Odkiaľ ideš? A Satan odpovedal Hospodinovi a riekol: Chodil som sem a ta po zemi a prechádzal som sa po nej.

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.”

³A zase riekol Hospodin Satanovi: Či si si všimnul môjho služobníka Joba, že nie je jemu rovného na zemi, takého bezúhonného muža, priameho a spravedlivého, ktorý sa bojí Boha a chráni sa zlého, ktorý sa ešte vždy drží svojej bezúhonnosti, hoci si ma popudil proti nemu, aby som ho pohltil bez príčiny.

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

⁴Na to odpovedal Satan Hospodinovi a riekol: Kožu za kožu a všetko, čo má človek, dá za svoj život.

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

⁵Ale nože vystri svoju ruku a dotkni sa jeho kosti a jeho tela, či ti nebude zlorečiť do tvári!

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

⁶Vtedy riekol Hospodin Satanovi: Hľa, je v tvojej ruke, len zachovaj jeho život!

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

⁷A keď vyšiel Satan zpred tvári Hospodinovej, ranil Joba zlým vredom od spodku jeho nohy až po jeho temeno,

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

⁸takže si vzal črep, aby sa ním škriabal, sediac prostred popola.

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

⁹A jeho žena mu riekla: Či sa ešte držíš svojej bezúhony? Zloreč Bohu a zomri!

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.

¹⁰Na to jej povedal: Hovoríš, ako hovorieva niektorá z bláznivých. Či azda len dobré budeme brať od Boha a zlého nebudeme brať? V tom vo všetkom nezhrešil Job svojimi rtami.

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.

¹¹Keď potom počuli traja priatelia Jobovi o všetkom tom zlom, ktoré prišlo na neho, prišli každý zo svojho miesta: Elifaz Témanský, Bildad Šuchský a Cófar Naamatský a uradili sa spoločne, že prijdú poľutovať ho a potešiť.

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.

¹²A keď pozdvihli svoje oči zďaleka, nepoznali ho. Potom pozdvihli svoj hlas a plakali a roztrhnúc každý svoj plášť sypali prach na svoje hlavy vrhajúc ho k nebu.

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.

¹³A sedeli s ním na zemi sedem dní a sedem nocí, a nikto neprehovoril k nemu ani slova, lebo videli, že jeho bolesť je veľmi veliká.