Priest Daniel Sysoev - Job 2

 1On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satana also came with them to present himself before Him.

2“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan.

“From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

3Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Because if a person serves God not because of God, then he is worthy of punishment. And the devil justifies his name "devil" - he is a slanderer, he tries to slander a person, to show that all people are "selfish".

By the way, you have not heard such a conversation “Everyone is buzzing, everyone is drunk, everyone is doing abortions, everyone goes to witches,” but what do you think, whose conversation is this? Who wants to say that all humanity is evil? Whose voice is this? This is the voice of Satan! It was he who said that people cannot serve you God, for your sake. They are all bastards - these people, they are all creeping creatures! We will see further this terrible voice, which says: “These are worms, they are made of dust, how can they serve You ?! This is your unfortunate Creation. You wrong. You didn’t work well. ” Satan had power over sinners, was such an executioner before the coming of the Lord. His power over the world, sinners was not accidental. And thus God says that Job remained as he was before. Job remained this way: a man blameless, just, fearing God and moving away from evil, and until now is firm in his integrity.

4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life. 5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

The main thing is health. The main thing is life. Man is a "selfish" creature. He's alive, healthy. Notice how old the repetition is, the words of the devil are all repeated.

6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

What do you mean, save his soul? Don't you dare touch the place where the soul will unite with the body. Don't you dare instill madness on him. The fact is that possessed people, they become such for the reason that the devil begins to act on the point of connection of the soul with the body. How does this happen? First, a person does some kind of evil, and God, in order to cure a person, releases a fallen spirit to attack him. A person retains his free will, reason, he loses control over power. I wonder why the church blesses the "psychiatry belt"? Why, when we hear voices, we recommend taking pills? Because the pills block this point. They destroy the place through which inactivity. As a result of this, a person has the opportunity to already be cured of insanity. The Lord blessed medicine as well, He heals with the hands of people. God forbids even Job to direct madness on him, forbids him to touch the point. And he says that save your soul, you have no right to touch his soul. you have no right to touch his reasonable activities. 

7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. 8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

Job has leprosy. A terrible disease, when a person rots alive, the disease came at once, to all Job. Usually, the disease manifests itself gradually, but here immediately, from head to toe. Job goes beyond the settlement. Why check-in? Because lepers, he considered himself unclean, a contagious disease, and therefore, according to the ancient laws that were included in the Old Testament, a leper had no right to live in cities, should live outside so as not to infect people. The fact is that the Orthodox Church considers Job to be a prototype of Christ the Savior. Who, being righteous, was persecuted by Satan and executed outside the city. The devil not only brought leprosy on him, but we also see that diseases are related to the fallen demonic world. A number of diseases, not only spiritual, but also physical, are directly related to the action of fallen spirits. If you remember, in the Gospel, there was a woman who was twisted, the Lord heals her. The Holy Fathers and the Father of God agree with this. Medicine does not recognize this. The same disease can be caused by an evil spirit, but it can also be caused for some natural reason.

9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curseb God and die!”

10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?”

His wife tells him, “What can you put up with? Blaspheme God. " Here we see that success comes through the wife. Satan decided to strike from an unprotected place. The wife offers to fall into despair. But he told her: you sound like one of the insane. What does good and evil from God mean? In the book of the Prophet Isaiah, God says: “I do for good. I do evil. " What do you mean I do evil? One interprets: "By evil does not mean moral evil, not sin, not lawlessness, but disaster: hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, diseases." All these things we call evil, although by nature they are not. And here it is necessary to clearly understand that God produces calamities, but does not perform evil deeds. The only real evil in the universe is sin. Because sin is capable of corrupting a person's personality, and what makes catastrophes, illnesses, etc., is not capable of corrupting a person's personality. Because the human body will be resurrected in any situation, but God cannot heal the consequences of sin, only then, then the person will repent of sin. God does everything for the salvation of people, therefore Job also says: will we really receive good from God, but we will not accept evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips. In all this Job did not sin with his lips. The last temptation comes, which will last for a very long time.

11Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

12When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head. 13Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

With him are three of his friends. They wonder who they thought of - a righteous man, but, it turns out, turned out to be a sinner. We will see further, the language of speech, of this very place. They wondered how they could have been so deceived. But the speeches of friends are Job's hardest temptations.