Satan Allowed to Test Job

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

Satan Attacks Job's Health

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.

But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.

“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.

That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.

He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.

For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’

How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.

The Lord Restores Job's Fortunes

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.