Job 1:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ And when the feast days had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, ‘It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.’ This is what Job always did.

Attack on Job’s Character

⁶ One day the heavenly beings^[a] came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan^[b] also came among them. ⁷ The Lord said to Satan,^[c] ‘Where have you come from?’ Satan^[d] answered the Lord, ‘From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.’