Job 1:6-11

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Satan’s First Test of Job

⁶ One day the sons of God^(A) came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan^[a] also came with them. ⁷ The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,”^(B) Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

⁸ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”

⁹ Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing? ¹⁰ Haven’t You placed a hedge around^(C) him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. ¹¹ But stretch out Your hand and strike^(D) everything he owns, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”