OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

Job 1:6

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Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan also came among them.

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Job 1:6 in context

Job 1:3–9

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His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

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His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

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It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

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Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan also came among them.

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The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

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The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

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Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

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  1. When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).

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