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Job’s motives questioned

One day the divine beings[a] came to present themselves before the Lord, and the Adversary[b] also came among them. The Lord said to the Adversary, “Where did you come from?”

The Adversary answered the Lord, “From wandering throughout the earth.”

The Lord said to the Adversary, “Have you thought about my servant Job; surely there is no one like him on earth, a man who is honest, who is of absolute integrity, who reveres God and avoids evil?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:6 Or children of God
  2. Job 1:6 Heb hassatan

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