Add parallel Print Page Options

12 So[a] Yahweh said to Satan,[b] “Look, all that belongs to him[c] is in your power.[d] Only do not stretch out your hand against[e] him.” So[f] Satan[g] went out from Yahweh’s presence.[h]

The Adversary’s Attack on Job’s Possessions

13 And then there was one day when[i] his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother’s house. 14 And a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding beside them.[j]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 1:12 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 1:12 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  3. Job 1:12 Literally “all that is his”
  4. Job 1:12 Literally “hand”
  5. Job 1:12 Literally “to,” or “unto”
  6. Job 1:12 Hebrew “And”
  7. Job 1:12 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  8. Job 1:12 Literally “faces of”
  9. Job 1:13 Hebrew “and”
  10. Job 1:14 Literally “on their hands”