6Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.


In Context

3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

4 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, |It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.| Job did so continually.

6 Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.

7 Yahweh said to Satan, |Where have you come from?| Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, |From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.|

8 Yahweh said to Satan, |Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.|

Job 1:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:6One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan also came with them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah; and Satan came also among them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:6Now on a certain day when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:6Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.