Again, there was a day, when the sons of God came to
present
themselves before the Lord
When good men, professors of religion, met together by agreement
to worship the Lord; the Targum calls them companies of angels,
interpreting the words of them, and of their standing before the
Lord, as most interpreters do; how long this time of their
meeting was from the former cannot be said, probably but a few
days, a week or fortnight at most; the Targum says, it was on the
day of the great judgment, and which, as in ( Job 1:6 ) ; was at the
beginning of the year; so that according to this, and other
Jewish writers, there was a whole year between this and the
former meeting, and so between the first and second trial of Job;
but this is not likely, since Satan would never give him so much
breathing time; nor can it be thought that Job's friends should
stay so long before they paid him a visit, which was not till
after this day:
and Satan came also among them to present himself before
the Lord;
being either obliged to it upon a summons to appear before God,
and give an account of what he had been doing on the earth, and
especially to Job; or rather he came willingly, seeking an
opportunity to continue his charge against Job, and to accuse him
afresh, and get his commission enlarged to do him more mischief,
which he could not do without a fresh grant.