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So[a] Yahweh asked[b] Satan,[c] “From where have you come?”

And Satan[d] answered Yahweh and said, “From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it.”

So[e] Yahweh asked[f] Satan,[g] “Have you considered[h] my servant Job? Indeed,[i] there is no one like him on the earth—a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness even though[j] you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing.”

Then[k] Satan[l] answered him and said, “Skin for skin! All that that[m] man has he will give for his life.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:2 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 2:2 Literally “said to”
  3. Job 2:2 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  4. Job 2:2 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  5. Job 2:3 Hebrew “And”
  6. Job 2:3 Literally “said to”
  7. Job 2:3 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  8. Job 2:3 Literally “set your heart”
  9. Job 2:3 Or “For” or “Because”
  10. Job 2:3 Hebrew “and”
  11. Job 2:4 Hebrew “And”
  12. Job 2:4 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  13. Job 2:4 Literally “the”