Job 1:7
Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, saying, From compassing the earth to and from, and from walking in it.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
6Nowe on a day when the children of God came and stoode before the Lord, Satan came also among them.
Cross References
2 Kings 5:25Then he went in, and stoode before his master. And Elisha said vnto him, Whence commest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy seruant went no whither.
Zechariah 1:10And the man that stood among the mirre trees, answered, and sayd, These are they whome the Lord hath sent to go through the world.
Zechariah 6:7And the reddish went out, and required to go, and passe through the world, and he sayde, Goe passe through the worlde. So they went thorowout the world.
1 Peter 5:8Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:
Revelation 12:12Therefore reioyce, ye heauens, and ye that dwell in them. Wo to the inhabitants of the earth, and of the sea: for the deuill is come downe vnto you, which hath great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.
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 →