Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for[a] all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.”(A) This was Job’s regular practice.

Satan’s First Test of Job

One day the sons of God(B) came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan[b] also came with them. The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,”(C) Satan answered him, “and walking around on it.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:5 Lit for the number of
  2. 1:6 Or the adversary

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