Job 1:6
4 Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
5 And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
7 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
- KJV
- Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
- WEB
- Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan also came among them.
- ASV
- Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them.
- DARBY
- And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah; and Satan came also among them.
- BLB
- And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before YHWH, that Satan also came into their midst.
- ÅB
- Så hendte det en dag at Guds sønner kom og stilte seg fram for Herren, og blant dem kom også Satan.
- OTB
- En dag kom Guds sønner for å presentere seg for Herren, og Satan kom også blant dem.
- B1930
- Så hendte det en dag at Guds sønner kom og stilte sig frem for Herren, og blandt dem kom også Satan.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 2:1
On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
Read in contextJob 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Read in contextZechariah 3:1
Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Read in contextRevelation 12:9–10
And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Read in context1 Kings 22:19
Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
Read in context1 Chronicles 21:1
Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
Read in contextGenesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Read in contextMatthew 18:10
See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.
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