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Job 1:9

New English Translation

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

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Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!”

But he replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

“I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will no longer accept an offering from you.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

For “physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.

So that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.




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