Now upon a time, when the servants of God came and stood before the LORD, Satan came also among them.

And the LORD said unto Satan, "From whence comest thou?" Satan answered the LORD, and said, "I have gone about the land and walked through it."

Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, and how that he is an innocent and virtuous man: such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land?"

Satan answered, and said unto the LORD, "Doth Job fear God for naught?

And the LORD said unto Satan, "Lo, all that he hath, be in thy power: only upon himself see that thou lay not thine hand." Then went Satan forth from the LORD.

It happened also upon a time, that when the servants of God came and stood before the LORD, Satan also came among them, and stood before him.

And the LORD said unto Satan, "From whence comest thou?" Satan answered and said, "I have gone about the land, and walked through it."

Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, how that he is an innocent and virtuous man such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godliness."

Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin? Yea, a man will give all that ever he hath, for his life.

Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Lo, there hast thou him in thy power, but spare his life."

So went Satan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown;