Job 1:9
New International Version
“Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied.

New Living Translation
Satan replied to the LORD, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God.

English Standard Version
Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason?

Berean Standard Bible
Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

King James Bible
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

New King James Version
So Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

New American Standard Bible
Then Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

NASB 1995
Then Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

NASB 1977
Then Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Legacy Standard Bible
And Satan answered Yahweh and said, “Does Job fear God without cause?

Amplified Bible
Then Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Christian Standard Bible
Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

American Standard Version
Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Satan answered and said to LORD JEHOVAH: “Does Job worship God for nothing?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Then the devil answered, and said before the Lord, Does Job worship the Lord for nothing?

Contemporary English Version
"Why shouldn't he respect you?" Satan remarked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain ?

English Revised Version
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Satan answered the LORD, "Haven't you given Job a reason to fear God?

Good News Translation
Satan replied, "Would Job worship you if he got nothing out of it?

International Standard Version
But in response, Satan asked the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought?

Literal Standard Version
And Satan answers YHWH and says, “Is Job fearing God for nothing?

Majority Standard Bible
Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

New American Bible
The satan answered the LORD and said, “Is it for nothing that Job is God-fearing?

NET Bible
Then Satan answered the LORD, "Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

New Revised Standard Version
Then Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

New Heart English Bible
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for naught?

World English Bible
Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Young's Literal Translation
And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'For nought is Job fearing God?

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Context
Satan's First Attack
8Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.” 9Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing? 10Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.…

Cross References
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Job 1:10
Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.


Treasury of Scripture

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

Doth Job.

Job 1:21
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Job 2:10
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Job 21:14,15
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways…

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1. The holiness, riches, and reverent care of Job for his children.
6. Satan, appearing before God, obtains leave to afflict Job.
13. Understanding of the loss of his children and goods, in his mourning Job blesses God.














(9) Doth Job fear God for nought?--Manifesting the worst kind of scepticism, a disbelief in human goodness. Satan knows that the motive of an action is its only value, and by incrimination calumniates the motives of Job. The object of the book is thus introduced, which is to exhibit the integrity of human conduct under the worst possible trial, and to show man a victor over Satan.

Verse 9. - Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Satan insinuates that Job's motive is purely selfish. He serves God, not for love of God, or for love of goodness, but for what he gets by it. Satan is too shrewd to endeavour, as Job's friends do later, to pick holes in Job's conduct. No; that is exemplary. But the true character of acts is determined by the motive. What is Job's motive? Does he not serve God to gain his protection and blessing? Similarly, in modern times, ungodly men argue that religious and devout persons are religious and devout with a view to their own interest, because they expect to gain by it, either in this world, or in the next, or in both. This is a form of calumny which it is impossible to escape. And bad men, who are conscious to themselves of never acting except from a selfish motive, may well imagine the same of others. It is rarely that such an insinuation can be disproved. In the present instance God vindicates his servant, and covers the adversary with shame, as the other adversaries and calumniators of righteousness will be covered at the last day.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Satan
הַשָּׂטָ֛ן (haś·śā·ṭān)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7854: An opponent -- Satan, the arch-enemy of good

answered
וַיַּ֧עַן (way·ya·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

the LORD,
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

“Does Job
אִיּ֖וֹב (’î·yō·wḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 347: Job -- a patriarch

fear
יָרֵ֥א (yā·rê)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten

God
אֱלֹהִֽים׃ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

for nothing?
הַֽחִנָּ֔ם (ha·ḥin·nām)
Adverb
Strong's 2600: Gratis, devoid of cost, reason, advantage


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