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Satan appears again, claiming Job will abandon God if his health is attacked. God allows the test but forbids Satan to take Job’s life. Job is struck with painful boils from head to toe. In agony, he sits among ashes, scraping his skin with broken pottery—an image of absolute humiliation and suffering. Job’s wife, overwhelmed by grief and loss, urges him to curse God and die, but Job refuses. Three friends—Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar—arrive and sit in silent mourning for seven days. Their silence at first is compassionate, but their future speeches will reveal they misunderstood God and Job entirely. The chapter teaches that suffering can intensify without explanation, faithful believers may face overwhelming physical pain, and not everyone around you interprets trials correctly.
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