8. Then the lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”
9. Satan replied to the lord, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God.
10. You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is!
11. But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
12. “All right, you may test him,” the lord said to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don’t harm him physically.” So Satan left the lord’s presence.
13. One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting at the oldest brother’s house,
14. a messenger arrived at Job’s home with this news: “Your oxen were plowing, with the donkeys feeding beside them,
15. when the Sabeans raided us. They stole all the animals and killed all the farmhands. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”