Job is a "man...blameless and upright...one who feared God, and turned away from evil" (1.1). He is pious, rich, and the head of a large family. Then on a day "when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord" (1.6), God asks his adversary (Satan) what he thinks of Job's righteousness. Satan proposes that Job would curse God if he were to lose all his wealth; so God and Satan agree to test Job. Satan proceeds to take away Job's possessions, his sons, and finally inflicts Job with a hideous skin desease. Job refuses to curse God. Three of his friends, having heard of his misery, now arrive to comfort him, but are shocked at their first sight of Job.
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