| 6 One day the angels came to present themselves
before the LORD , and Satan also came with them.
7 The LORD said to Satan, \"Where have you come
from?\" Satan answered the LORD , \"From roaming
through the earth and going back and forth in it.\"
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, \"Have you considered
my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him;
he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God
and shuns evil.\"
9 \"Does Job fear God for nothing?\" Satan replied.
10 \"Have you not put a hedge around him and his
household and everything he has? You have blessed
the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds
are spread throughout the land.
11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he
has, and he will surely curse you to your face.\"
12 The LORD said to Satan, \"Very well, then,
everything he has is in your hands, but on the man
himself do not lay a finger.\" Then Satan went out
from the presence of the LORD.
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