Job 1:5–11

⁵Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for^A all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.”^h This was Job’s regular practice.

SATAN’S FIRST TEST OF JOB

⁶One day the sons of Godⁱ came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan^B also came with them. ⁷The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,”^j Satan answered him, “and walking around on it.”

⁸Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity,^k who fears God and turns away from evil.”^l

⁹Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing? ¹⁰Haven’t you placed a hedge around^m him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. ¹¹But stretch out your hand and strikeⁿ everything he owns, and he will surely curse you to your face.”