¹² The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has^(A) is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”^(B)

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

⁶ The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands;^(A) but you must spare his life.”^(B)

²⁸ ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a](A) As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’^[b]

²⁵ And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.^(A)