Job 1:6-8

Contemporary English Version

Angels, the Lord, and Satan

^6 (A) One day, when the angels^[a] had gathered around the Lord, and Satan^[b] was there with them, ⁷ the Lord asked, “Satan, where have you been?”

Satan replied, “I have been going all over the earth.”

⁸ Then the Lord asked, “What do you think of my servant Job? No one on earth is like him—he is a truly good person, who respects me and refuses to do evil.”