Job 1:5-9

5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.
6 One day the angels[a] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan[b] also came with them.
7 The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied.

Cross References 12

  • 1. S Nehemiah 12:30
  • 2. S Genesis 8:20; Job 42:8
  • 3. Job 8:4
  • 4. 1 Kings 21:10,13; Psalms 10:3; Psalms 74:10
  • 5. S 1 Kings 22:19; "fn" Genesis 6:2; Job 38:7
  • 6. S 2 Samuel 24:1; S 2 Chronicles 18:21; S Psalms 109:6; Luke 22:31
  • 7. Job 2:1
  • 8. S Genesis 3:1; 1 Peter 5:8
  • 9. S Joshua 1:7; Job 42:7-8
  • 10. Psalms 25:12; Psalms 112:1; Psalms 128:4
  • 11. S ver 1; S Exodus 20:20
  • 12. 1 Timothy 6:5

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Hebrew "the sons of God"
  • [b]. Hebrew "satan" means "adversary."
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