Job 2:10
“This text means that if we actually experienced only misfortunes, we would still need to bear them. God is Master and Lord. Does he not possess the power to send us anything? Why did God provide us with our goods? He did not do so because we deserved them. God was absolutely free to send us only afflictions. If he has…”
Source: Septuagint
10But he looked on her, and said to her, Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.
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8And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, And sat upon a dungheap outside the city.
9And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, a Behold, I wait yet a little while, Expecting the hope of my deliverance? b For, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, Even thy sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb Which I bore in vain with sorrows; c And thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, d And I am a wanderer and a servant From place to place and house to house, Waiting for the setting of the sun, That I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: e But say some word against the Lord, and die.
— Job 2:10 —
11Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, Came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Temanites, Bildad sovereign of the Shuhites, Zophar king of the Minaeans: And they came to him with one accord, To comfort and to visit him.
12And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; And they cried with a loud voice, and wept, And rent every one his garment, And sprinkled dust upon their heads,