Job 1

Heavenly Conversation Job 1:6–12

⁶Verse 6. Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them. ⁷Verse 7. Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” ⁸Verse 8. Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.” ⁹Verse 9. Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? ¹⁰Verse 10. Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

¹¹Verse 11. But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.” ¹²Verse 12. Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Job's Calamities Job 1:13–19

¹³Verse 13. It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, ¹⁴Verse 14. that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, ¹⁵Verse 15. and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” ¹⁶Verse 16. While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

¹⁷Verse 17. While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.” ¹⁸Verse 18. While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, ¹⁹Verse 19. and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job's Response to Suffering Job 1:20–21

²⁰Verse 20. Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. ²¹Verse 21. He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Job's Integrity Maintained Job 1:22

²²Verse 22. In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.