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Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes. His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”

10 But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.

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Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.(A)

His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity?(B) Curse God and die!”(C)

10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[a] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”(D)

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:10 The Hebrew word rendered foolish denotes moral deficiency.