Job 1:9

THE MESSAGE

Satan retorted, "So do you think Job does all that out of the sheer goodness of his heart? Why, no one ever had it so good! You pamper him like a pet, make sure nothing bad ever happens to him or his family or his possessions, bless everything he does—he can't lose!

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
Then Hasatan answered the LORD, and said, "Does Iyov fear God for nothing?

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

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

New Century Version
But Satan answered the Lord , "Job honors God for a good reason.

New English Translation
Then Satan answered the Lord , "Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

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

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

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?

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

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
The Adversary answered Adonai , "Is it for nothing that Iyov fears God?

Darby Translation
And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

Easy-to-Read Version
Satan answered the Lord , "But Job has a good reason to respect you.

George Lamsa Translation
Then Satan answered the LORD and said, Does Job revere God for nought?

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

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

Literal Translation
And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sathan answered, and sayde vnto the LORDE: Doth Iob feare God for naught?

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

Bible in Basic English
And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Satan aunswered, and saide vnto the Lorde: Doth Iob feare God for naught?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought?

King James Version (1611)
Then Satan answered ye Lord, and sayd, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then the devil answered, and said before the Lord, Does Job worship the Lord for nothing?

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
To whom Sathan answeride, Whether Joob dredith God veynli?

Update Bible Version
Then Satan answered Yahweh, 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?

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

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

New Life Bible
Then Satan answered the Lord, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

New Revised Standard
Then Satan answered the Lord , "Does Job fear God for nothing?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the accuser answered Yahweh, and said, Is it, for nought, that Job revereth God?

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

Revised Standard Version
Then Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nought?

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

Contextual Overview

⁶One day when the angels came to report to God , Satan, who was the Designated Accuser, came along with them. God singled out Satan and said, "What have you been up to?" Satan answered God , "Going here and there, checking things out on earth." ⁸ God said to Satan, "Have you noticed my friend Job? There's no one quite like him—honest and true to his word, totally devoted to God and hating evil." ⁹Satan retorted, "So do you think Job does all that out of the sheer goodness of his heart? Why, no one ever had it so good! You pamper him like a pet, make sure nothing bad ever happens to him or his family or his possessions, bless everything he does—he can't lose! ¹¹ "But what do you think would happen if you reached down and took away everything that is his? He'd curse you right to your face, that's what." ¹² God replied, "We'll see. Go ahead—do what you want with all that is his. Just don't hurt him." Then Satan left the presence of God .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Doth Job: Job 1:21, Job 2:10, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Malachi 1:10, Matthew 16:26, 1 Timothy 4:8, 1 Timothy 6:6

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 32:29 - possessions Job 4:6 - thy fear Jonah 1:9 - and I Matthew 4:3 - the tempter Romans 8:33 - Who Revelation 12:10 - the accuser

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

Genesis 1:6
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two.

Genesis 1:9
God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.

Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I've given you every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth And every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for food. To all animals and all birds, everything that moves and breathes, I give whatever grows out of the ground for food." And there it was.

Jonah 1:9
He told them, "I'm a Hebrew. I worship God , the God of heaven who made sea and land."

2 Peter 3:5
They conveniently forget that long ago all the galaxies and this very planet were brought into existence out of watery chaos by God's word. Then God's word brought the chaos back in a flood that destroyed the world. The current galaxies and earth are fuel for the final fire. God is poised, ready to speak his word again, ready to give the signal for the judgment and destruction of the desecrating skeptics.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, doth Job fear God for nought. Satan does not deny any part of Job's character, nor directly charge him with anyone sin; which shows what a holy man Job was, how exact in his life and conversation, that the devil could not allege any one thing against him; nor does he deny that he feared the Lord; nay, he owns it, only suggests there was a private reason for it; and this he dares not affirm, only puts it by way of question, giving an innuendo, which is a wretched way of slander many of his children have learnt from him: he insinuates that Job's fear of God, and serving him, was not "for nought", or "freely" s, it was not out of love to him, or with any regard to his will, or his honour and glory, but from selfish principles, with mercenary views, and for worldly ends and purposes: indeed no man fears and serves the Lord for nought and in vain, he is well paid for it; and godliness has a great gain along with it, the Lord bestows everything, both in a temporal and spiritual way, on them that fear him; so that eventually, and in the issue, they are great gainers by it; and they may lawfully look to these things, in order to encourage them in the service and worship of God, even as Moses had respect to the recompence of reward; when they do not make these, but the will and glory of God, the sole and chief cause and end thereof: but the intimation of Satan is, that Job's fear was merely outward and hypocritical, nor cordial, hearty, and disinterested, but was entirely for his own sake, and for what he got by it; and this he said as if he knew better than God himself, the searcher of hearts, who had before given such an honourable character of him. Sephorno observes, that he supposes that his fear was not a fear of the greatness of God, a reverence of his divine Majesty, but a fear of punishment; or what we call a servile fear, and not a filial one.

s חנם "gratis", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius Piscator, Schmidt, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Doth Job fear God for nought? - “Is his religion disinterested? Would not anyone be willing to worship God in such circumstances?” The idea is that there was nothing genuine about his piety; that religion could not be tried in prosperity; that Job had an abundant compensation for serving God, and that if the favors conferred on him were taken away, he would be like the rest of mankind. Much of the apparent virtue and religion of the world is the result of circumstances, and the question here proposed “may,” it is to be feared, be asked with great propriety of many professors of religion who are rich; it “should” be asked by every professed friend of the Most High, whether his religion is not selfish and mercenary. Is it because God has blessed us with great earthly advantages? Is it the result of mere gratitude? Is it because he has preserved us in peril, or restored us from sickness? Or is it merely because we hope for heaven, and serve God because we trust he will reward us in a future world? All this may be the result of mere selfishness; and of all such persons it may be appropriately asked, “Do they fear God for nought?” True religion is not mere gratitude, nor is it the result of circumstances. It is the love of religion for its own sake - not for reward; it is because the service of God is right in itself, and not merely because heaven is full of glory; it is because God is worthy of our affections and confidence, and not merely because he will bless us - and this religion will live through all external changes, and survive the destruction of the world. It will flourish in poverty as well as when surrounded by affluence; on a bed of pain as well as in vigorous health; when we are calumniated and despised for our attachment to it, as well as when the incense of flattery is burned around us, and the silvery tones of praise fall on our ear; in the cottage as well as the palace; on the pallet of straw as well as on the bed of down.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 1:9. Doth Job fear God for naught? — Thou hast made it his interest to be exemplary in his conduct: for this assertion Satan gives his reasons in what immediately follows.