Satan’s First Attack
Job 1:9
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
- KJV
- Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
- WEB
- Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
- ASV
- Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
- LSV
- And Satan answers YHWH and says, “Is Job fearing God for nothing?
- YLT
- And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'For nought is Job fearing God?
- DBY
- And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?Elohim
- DRC
- And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain?
- GNV
- Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?
- JPS
- Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought?
- LXXE
- Then the devil answered, and said before the Lord, Does Job worship the Lord for nothing?
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיַּ֧עַן הַשָּׂטָ֛ן אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הַֽחִנָּ֔ם יָרֵ֥א אִיּ֖וֹב אֱלֹהִֽים׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἀπεκρίθη δὲ ὁ διάβολος, καὶ εἶπεν ἐναντίον τοῦ Κυρίου, μὴ δωρεὰν Ἰὼβ σέβεται τὸν Κύριον;
Who and where
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
How traditions read it
Identified with Satan in later Jewish and Christian tradition · Satan
The Hebrew śāṭān means "adversary" or "accuser". In Job 1–2 and Zechariah 3 it has the article ("the satan"), a title rather than a name, and in Psalm 109:6 it is a human accuser ("let an accuser stand at his right hand"). 1 Chronicles 21:1 has no article and is the likeliest use as a name. Later Jewish and Christian tradition identifies these figures with Satan.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Timothy 4:8For 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.
- Matthew 16:26What 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?
- Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
- 1 Timothy 6:6Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
- Job 1:21saying: “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.”
- Job 2:10“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“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.
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