What events and attributed statements does Job Chapter 2 record?

When the heavenly council convened again before the Lord, Satan appeared among the sons of God after roaming the earth. The Lord highlighted the enduring integrity of His servant Job, commending him as an upright and blameless man who feared God, avoided evil, and preserved his innocence and saying Satan had moved him against Job to afflict him without cause. In response, Satan asserted that a man will surrender all he possesses to preserve his physical life, challenging God to afflict Job's bone and flesh to prove he would openly curse his Maker. The Lord permitted Satan to test Job directly, granting power over his body while imposing the absolute boundary that his life must be spared.

Satan departed and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. Reduced to sitting upon a dunghill, Job used an earthenware potsherd to scrape away the discharging sores. Witnessing his degradation, his wife urged him to abandon his simplicity, demanding that he curse God and die. Job rebuked her counsel as the talk of a foolish woman, asking whether human beings should accept only prosperity from God's hand while refusing adversity. Throughout this profound trial, Job uttered no sinful word with his lips.

Hearing of the calamities that had struck Job, his three companions—Eliphaz the Themanite, Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite—journeyed from their respective homelands, having agreed to meet and offer comfort. Approaching from a distance, they failed to recognize him. Overcome with grief, they wept aloud, tore their clothing, and threw dust over their heads toward heaven in lamentation. The three friends sat beside him on the ground for seven days and seven nights without any man speaking a word to him because they perceived that his suffering was exceedingly great. The earlier edition note explains that “bless” in the wife’s command here signifies its contrary, expressing horror of blasphemy.