Job 1:1-7 ▼

1 There was a man in the land of Uz—Job was his name—and that man was blameless and upright and fearing God and turning away from evil.

2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

3 And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pair of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large service. And that man was greater than all the sons of the East.

4 And his sons would go and make a feast at the house of each man in his day, and they would send and call to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

5 And it came to pass that the days of the feasting had gone around, and Job would send and would sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer up burnt offerings, the number of them all, for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did all the days.

6 And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before YHWH, that Satan also came into their midst.

7 And YHWH said to Satan, “From where have you come?” And Satan answered YHWH and said, “From roaming on the earth, and walking back and forth on it.”