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    "title": "Job 2 — The second council scene and the second test",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:1",
        "text": "The day came when the sons of the Elohim came to present themselves before YHWH — and the adversary also came among them to present himself before YHWH."
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:2",
        "text": "YHWH said to the adversary, \"From where do you come?\" And the adversary answered YHWH and said, \"From roaming the earth and walking back and forth on it.\""
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        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:3",
        "text": "YHWH said to the adversary, \"Have you set your heart on my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth — a man blameless and upright, one who fears Elohim and turns from evil. He still holds firm to his integrity, and you incited me against him to swallow him without cause.\""
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:4",
        "text": "The adversary answered YHWH and said, \"Skin for skin — all that a person has, he will give for his life.\""
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:5",
        "text": "But put out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh — and surely he will curse you to your face."
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        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:6",
        "text": "YHWH said to the adversary, \"Behold, he is in your hand — only spare his life.\""
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:7",
        "text": "The adversary went out from before YHWH and struck Job with severe sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:8",
        "text": "He took a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat in the midst of the ashes."
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        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:9",
        "text": "His wife said to him, \"Are you still holding firm to your integrity? Curse Elohim — and die.\""
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        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:10",
        "text": "He said to her, \"You are speaking as one of the foolish women speaks. Should we accept good from the Elohim and not accept bad?\" In all this Job did not sin with his lips."
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        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:11",
        "text": "When the three companions of Job heard of all this evil that had come upon him, each of them came from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite — and they made an appointment together to come to console him and to comfort him."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:12",
        "text": "When they raised their eyes from afar, they did not recognize him. They raised their voices and wept; each tore his robe and threw dust upon his head, skyward."
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        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-2:13",
        "text": "They sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great."
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