1 But it happened that, on a certain day, when the sons of God had arrived and they stood before the Lord, Satan likewise arrived among them, and he stood in his sight.
2 So the Lord said to Satan, "Where do you come from?" Answering, he said, "I have circled the land, and walked around in it."
3 And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you not considered my servant, Job, that there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil, and still retaining his innocence? Yet you have stirred me against him, so that I would afflict him to no purpose."
4 Answering him, Satan said, "Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.