Job 1:2-10

New International Version

² He had seven sons^(A) and three daughters,^{(B) 3} and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys,^(C) and had a large number of servants.^(D) He was the greatest man^(E) among all the people of the East.^(F)

⁴ His sons used to hold feasts^(G) in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. ⁵ When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified.^(H) Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering^(I) for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned^(J) and cursed God^(K) in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

⁶ One day the angels^[a](L) came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan^[b](M) also came with them.^{(N) 7} The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”^(O)

⁸ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job?^(P) There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God^(Q) and shuns evil.”^(R)

⁹ “Does Job fear God for nothing?”^(S) Satan replied. ¹⁰ “Have you not put a hedge^(T) around him and his household and everything he has?^(U) You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.^(V)