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.

¹Zopet se zgodi nekega dne, da pridejo sinovi Božji postavit se pred GOSPODA, in pride tudi satan med njimi, da se postavi pred GOSPODA.

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.”

²In GOSPOD reče satanu: Odkod si prišel? Satan pa odgovori GOSPODU in reče: Po zemlji sem letal semtertja in vseokrog jo obhajal.

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.”

³In GOSPOD reče satanu: Si li opazoval hlapca mojega Joba? Kajti njemu ni na zemlji enakega, mož je popoln in pošten, ki se boji Boga in varuje hudega; in še se drži popolnosti svoje! Ti pa si me nadražil zoper njega, da ga uničim brez vzroka.

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

⁴A satan odgovori GOSPODU in reče: Kožo za kožo, in vse, kar ima človek, da za življenje svoje.

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

⁵Pa le iztegni roko svojo in se dotakni njegovega okostja in mesa, gotovo se ti v obraz tebe odreče!

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

⁶Nato veli GOSPOD satanu: Glej, v tvoji je roki, samo življenje mu ohrani!

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

⁷In ven je šel satan izpred obličja GOSPODOVEGA, in udaril je Joba s hudimi tvori od stopal do temena.

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

⁸In Job vzame čepinjo, da bi se ž njo praskal, in sede sredi pepela.

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

⁹Tedaj mu reče žena njegova: Ali se še držiš popolnosti svoje? Odpovej se Bogu in umri!

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.

¹⁰On pa ji reče: Govoriš kakor nespametne ženske. Dobro smo li sprejeli od Boga, a ne sprejmemo naj tudi hudega? Pri vsem tem ni grešil Job z ustnicami svojimi.

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.

¹¹Ko so pa slišali trije prijatelji Jobovi o vsej tej nesreči, ki ga je bila zadela, pridejo vsak iz kraja svojega: Elifaz Temančan, Bildad Šuhec in Zofar Naamatec, in se dogovore, da ga pojdejo skupaj milovat in tolažit.

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.

¹²In ko so oddaleč povzdignili oči, ga niso spoznali; in zaženo svoj glas ter plakajo, in vsak raztrga obleko svojo in si potrese prahu na glavo proti nebu.In sedeli so ž njim na tleh sedem dni in sedem noči, in nihče mu ni govoril besede, zakaj videli so, da je njegova bolest silno velika.

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.

¹³In sedeli so ž njim na tleh sedem dni in sedem noči, in nihče mu ni govoril besede, zakaj videli so, da je njegova bolest silno velika.