Job 1:5–11

⁵So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and ³sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning ^eand offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and ^fcursed ⁴God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.

Satan Attacks Job’s Character

⁶Now ^gthere was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and ⁵Satan also came among them. ⁷And the Lord said to ⁶Satan, “From where do you come?”

So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From ^hgoing to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”

⁸Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you ⁷considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and ⁸shuns evil?”

⁹So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? ¹⁰ⁱHave You not ⁹made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? ^jYou have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. ^11kBut now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely ^lcurse ¹You to Your face!”