Job 1:9 “Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?”

Job 1:9

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

World English Bible

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

American Standard Version

Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

Geneva Bible 1599

Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?

Darby Translation

And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

Young's Literal Translation

And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'For nought is Job fearing God?

Bible in Basic English

And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?

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Cross references

“Doth Job”

Matthew 16:26 1 Timothy 4:8 Job 1:21 1 Timothy 6:6 Job 2:10 Malachi 1:10

Matthew 16:26 · BSB

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

1 Timothy 4:8 · BSB

For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

Job 1:21 · BSB

saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

1 Timothy 6:6 · BSB

Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

Job 2:10 · BSB

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Malachi 1:10 · BSB

“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Then 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.”

10Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

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