12 Then the Lord said unto Satan, Lo, all that he hath is in [a]thine hand: only upon himself shalt thou not stretch out thine hand. So Satan departed from the [b]presence of the Lord.

13 ¶ And on a day, when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,

14 There came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:12 God giveth not Satan power over man to gratify him, but to declare that he hath no power over man, but that which God giveth him.
  2. Job 1:12 That is, went to execute that which God had permitted him to do: for else he can never go out of God’s presence.

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