Job 1:9

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

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

In Context

8And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.

10Have thou not made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has, on every side? Thou have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

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Cross References

Job 1:21And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

Job 21:14And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

Matthew 16:26For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

1 Timothy 6:6But piety with contentment is great gain,

Matthew Henry on Job 1:7-13

Satan before God; Satan Permitted to Afflict Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan came also among them. 7 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. 8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and… Read the whole commentary →

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