In chapter 3, "instead of cursing God", Job laments the night of his conception and the day of his birth he longs for death, "but it does not come". Job sits in ashes, and his wife prompts him to "curse God, and die", but Job answers: "Shall we receive good from God and shall we not receive evil?" Job's opening monologue and dialogues between Job and his three friends God gives Satan permission to take Job's wealth and kill his children and servants, but Job nonetheless praises God: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord." In chapter 2, God further allows Satan to afflict Job's body with boils. Satan accuses Job of being pious only because God has materially blessed him if God were to take away everything that Job has, then he would surely curse God. 'the adversary'') for his opinion of Job's piety. The scene then shifts to Heaven, where God asks Satan ( Biblical Hebrew: הַשָּׂטָן, romanized: haśśāṭān, lit.' lit. In chapter 1, the prologue on Earth introduces Job as a righteous man, blessed with wealth, sons, and daughters, who lives in the land of Uz.
Job's Tormentors from William Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job Prologue on Earth and in Heaven
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