Job 1:7
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1:7The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”36 And Satan answered the Lord,37 “From roving about38 on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”39
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- 36 The imperfect may be classified as progressive imperfect; it indicates action that although just completed is regarded as still lasting into the present ( §107.h).
- 37 Heb “answered the Lord and said” (also in v. 9). The words “and said” here and in v. 9 have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- 38 The verb שׁוּט (shut) means “to go or rove about” ( 1001–2 ). Here the infinitive construct serves as the object of the preposition.
- 39 The Hitpael (here also an infinitive construct after the preposition) of the verb הָלַךְ (halakh) means “to walk to and fro, back and forth, with the sense of investigating or reconnoitering (see e.g. Gen 13:17). As the words are spoken by Satan, there is no self-condemnation in them. What they signify is the swiftness and thoroughness of his investigation of humans. The good angels are said to go to and fro in the earth on behalf of the suffering righteous (Zech 1:10, 11; 6:7), but Satan goes seeking whom he may devour (1 Pet 5:8).
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
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.”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”
“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered him, “and walking around on it.”
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NLTNew Living Translation
“Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan. Satan answered the Lord, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
So Yahweh said to Satan, “From where have you come?”
Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, “From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it.”
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KJV 1900King James Version
And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
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