Job 2:2-4

Contemporary English Version

² and the Lord asked, “Satan, where have you been?”

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

³ 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. And he hasn't changed, even though you persuaded me to destroy him for no reason.”

⁴ Satan answered, “There's no pain like your own.^[a] People will do anything to stay alive.