8 So Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth—a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.”
9 Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
10 Have you not put a fence around him and his household and around all that belongs to him on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has increased in the land.
11 But, on the other hand, stretch out your hand and touch all that belongs to him and see whether he will curse you to your face.”
12 So Yahweh said to Satan, “Look, all that belongs to him is in your power. Only do not stretch out your hand against him.” So Satan went out from Yahweh’s presence.
13 And then there was one day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother’s house.
14 And a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding beside them.