6Nowe on a day when the children of God came and stoode before the Lorde, Satan came also among them.
7Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, saying, From compassing the earth to and fro, and from walking in it.
8And the Lord saide vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill?
9Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?
10Hast thou not made an hedge about him and about his house, & about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, & his substance is increased in the land.
11But stretch out now thine hand & touch all that he hath, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.
12Then the Lorde sayde vnto Satan, Lo, all that he hath is in thine hand: onely vpon himselfe shalt thou not stretch out thine hand. So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.
13And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,
14There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,