Job 1:3-10

New King James Version

³ Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the ^[a]people of the East.

⁴ And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. ⁵ So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and ^[b]sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning ^(A)and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and ^(B)cursed^[c] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.

Satan Attacks Job’s Character

⁶ Now ^(C)there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and ^[d]Satan also came among them. ⁷ And the Lord said to ^[e]Satan, “From where do you come?”

So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From ^(D)going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”

⁸ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you ^[f]considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and ^[g]shuns evil?”

⁹ So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? ^10 (E)Have You not ^[h]made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? ^(F)You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.