Job 2:9
“Now, since the betrayer had been defeated in every battle, had failed in all his attempts, had been hindered in all his hunts, had been deprived of all his schemes, and all his traps had been broken, after destroying Job's wealth, after the death of his numerous children, after ripping Job's body with his blows, as a…”
Source: Septuagint
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.
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7So the devil went out from the Lord, And smote Job with sore boils from his feet to his head.
8And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, And sat upon a dungheap outside the city.
— Job 2:9 —
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.
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.