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At another gathering of the host of angels, God commended Job and his righteousness, but Satan again accused him saying that if his own body was touched, then he would curse God to his face.  The Lord allowed Satan to act upon his accusation, but commanded the accuser to spare Job's life.  Job was afflicted with painful itching sores ("sore [[boils]]" <ref>[http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/boils-and-carbuncles/basics/definition/con-20024235 Mayo Clinic.org: Boils and Carbuncles.]<br/>[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001474.htm MedlinePlus Trusted Health Information for You. A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. From the National Institutes of Health. Boils.] (nlm.nih.gov)</ref>) from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, which he scratched constantly with a piece of broken pottery. Job's wife told Job to "Curse God and Die",<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job%202:9&version=NABRE Job 2:9]</ref> apparently believing that God would immediately punish blasphemy with death, and that, by this indirect means of committing suicide, death would mercifully end his suffering, but Job refused. (See [http://www.suicide.org/suicide-by-cop.html suicide by cop].)

At another gathering of the host of angels, God commended Job and his righteousness, but Satan again accused him saying that if his own body was touched, then he would curse God to his face.  The Lord allowed Satan to act upon his accusation, but commanded the accuser to spare Job's life.  Job was afflicted with painful itching sores ("sore [[boils]]" <ref>[http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/boils-and-carbuncles/basics/definition/con-20024235 Mayo Clinic.org: Boils and Carbuncles.]<br/>[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001474.htm MedlinePlus Trusted Health Information for You. A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. From the National Institutes of Health. Boils.] (nlm.nih.gov)</ref>) from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, which he scratched constantly with a piece of broken pottery. Job's wife told Job to "Curse God and Die",<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job%202:9&version=NABRE Job 2:9]</ref> apparently believing that God would immediately punish blasphemy with death, and that, by this indirect means of committing suicide, death would mercifully end his suffering, but Job refused. (See [http://www.suicide.org/suicide-by-cop.html suicide by cop].)

Three of Job's friends, Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuh, and Zophar from Naamath, all from [[Edom]], came to talk to him, and in a three-fold cycle of long discourses that Job answered, each of them addressing him three times one by one, they implored to him to admit his sins had caused this. Job could not understand what was happening, but he knew it was not due to his sin. He maintained he had been righteous, and heartily desired, even demanded, that God would let him know why all this had happened. Then Elihu, a younger man, having listened to them until Job by his replies had silenced them, and impelled by "the breath of the Almighty", then declares that both Job and his three friends are not right to find fault with God and attribute their limited understandings of justice to the understanding of God; and he concludes his discourse against them by saying of God (37:24b), "''he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit''" (RSVCE)–the King James Version says, "he respecteth not any ''that are'' wise of heart".<ref>Job 32–37</ref> Finally, at this point, God himself came down in a storm ([[theophany]]) to talk to Job. Instead of answering Job's challenges to explain his actions, He asked Job questions such as "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations?  Tell me, if you understand.  Who marked off its dimensions?".<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job%2038:4-5&version=NABRE Job 38:4-5]</ref> Like [[Ezekiel (prophet)|Ezekiel]]<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel%201&version=NABRE Ezekiel chapter 1]</ref>, Job actually saw God with his own eyes speaking out of the whirlwind of the storm,<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job%2042:5-6&version=NABRE Job 42:5-6]</ref> and realized he had no answers for God and could not begin to question things he could not understand.

Three of Job's friends, Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuh, and Zophar from Naamath, all from [[Edom]], came to talk to him, and in a three-fold cycle of long discourses that Job answered, each of them addressing him three times one by one, they implored to him to admit his sins had caused this. Job could not understand what was happening, but he knew it was not due to his sin. He maintained he had been righteous, and heartily desired, even demanded, that God would let him know why all this had happened. Then Elihu, a younger man, having listened to them until Job by his replies had silenced them, and impelled by "the breath of the Almighty", then declares that both Job and his three friends are not right to find fault with God and attribute their limited understandings of justice to the understanding of God; and he concludes his discourse against them by saying of God (37:24b), "''he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit''" (RSVCE)–the King James Version says, "he respecteth not any ''that are'' wise of heart".<ref>Job 32–37</ref> Finally, at this point, God himself came down in a storm ([[theophany]]) to talk to Job. Instead of answering Job's challenges to explain his actions, He asked Job questions such as "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations?  Tell me, if you understand.  Who marked off its dimensions?".<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job%2038:4-5&version=NABRE Job 38:4-5]</ref> Like [[Ezekiel (prophet)|Ezekiel]],<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel%201&version=NABRE Ezekiel chapter 1]</ref> Job actually saw God with his own eyes speaking out of the whirlwind of the storm,<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job%2042:5-6&version=NABRE Job 42:5-6]</ref> and realized he had no answers for God and could not begin to question things he could not understand.

God then tells Job's three friends that he is enraged with them for their false theology about him, unlike that of Job, and He commands them to give to Job seven bulls and seven rams and offer up for their offense against Him a burnt offering of reparation, and then the prayer of Job in [[intercession]] for them will persuade God to not deal with them according to their folly.<ref>Compare [http://biblehub.com/multi/james/5-16.htm James 5:16] –''multiple translations''.</ref>

God then tells Job's three friends that he is enraged with them for their false theology about him, unlike that of Job, and He commands them to give to Job seven bulls and seven rams and offer up for their offense against Him a burnt offering of reparation, and then the prayer of Job in [[intercession]] for them will persuade God to not deal with them according to their folly.<ref>Compare [http://biblehub.com/multi/james/5-16.htm James 5:16] –''multiple translations''.</ref>