12 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your [a]power, only do not put forth your hand on him.” So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.

Satan Allowed to Test Job

13 Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the [b]donkeys feeding beside them,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:12 Lit hand
  2. Job 1:14 Lit female donkeys