Job 1:9

Then the devil answered, and said before the Lord, 1 Does Job worship the Lord for nothing? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8And the Lord said to him, 1 Hast thou diligently considered my servant Job, 1 That there is none like him on the earth, 1 A man blameless, true, godly, 1 Abstaining from everything evil? 1

10Hast thou not made a hedge about him, and about his household, 1 And all his possessions round about? 1 And hast thou not blessed the works of his hands, 1 And multiplied his cattle upon the land? 1

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Cross References

Job 1:21and said, 1 I myself came forth naked from my mother’s womb, 1 And naked shall I return thither: 1 The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: 1 As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; 1 Blessed be the name of the Lord. 1

Job 21:14Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; 1 I desire not to know thy ways. 1

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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