Job 1:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?”
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BSBPD
“Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `For nought is Job fearing God?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 1:9 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Malachi 1:10“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
- Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- 1 Timothy 4:8For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
- 1 Timothy 6:6Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
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