3. His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she asses, and a very great store of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
4. And his sons went and had banquets in their houses, each one on his day, and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5. And it was so, when the days of their banquets were over, that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
6. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
7. And the Lord said unto Satan, Where dost thou come from? Then Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it.
8. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my slave Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and has departed from evil?
9. Then Satan answered the Lord and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?