Job 2:2-4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² The Lord asked Satan, ‘Where have you come from? ’

‘From roaming through the earth,’ Satan answered him, ‘and walking around on it.’

³ Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity,^(A) who fears God and turns away from evil.^(B) He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.’

⁴ ‘Skin for skin! ’ Satan answered the Lord. ‘A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.