Job 1:6-8

Common English Bible

Job’s motives questioned

⁶ One day the divine beings^[a] came to present themselves before the Lord, and the Adversary^[b] also came among them. ⁷ The Lord said to the Adversary, “Where did you come from?”

The Adversary answered the Lord, “From wandering throughout the earth.”

⁸ The Lord said to the Adversary, “Have you thought about my servant Job; surely there is no one like him on earth, a man who is honest, who is of absolute integrity, who reveres God and avoids evil?”