1:6 Now the day came when ²  the sons of God ³  came to present themselves before ⁴  the Lord – and Satan ⁵  also arrived among them. 1:7 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” ⁶  And Satan answered the Lord, ⁷  “From roving about ⁸  on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.” ⁹  1:8 So the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered ¹⁰  my servant Job? There ¹¹  is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away ¹²  from evil.”

1:9 Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God? ¹³  1:10 Have you ¹⁴  not made a hedge ¹⁵  around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed ¹⁶  the work of his hands, and his livestock ¹⁷  have increased ¹⁸  in the land. 1:11 But ¹⁹  extend your hand and strike ²⁰  everything he has, and he will no doubt ²¹  curse you ²²  to your face!”

2:1 The heavens and the earth ¹  were completed with everything that was in them. ²  2:2 By ³  the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, ⁴  and he ceased ⁵  on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing. 2:3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy ⁶  because on it he ceased all the work that he ⁷  had been doing in creation. ⁸ 

2:4 This is the account ⁹  of the heavens and the earth ¹⁰  when they were created – when the Lord God ¹¹  made the earth and heavens. ¹² 

2:5 Now ¹³  no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field ¹⁴  had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. ¹⁵  2:6 Springs ¹⁶  would well up ¹⁷  from the earth and water ¹⁸  the whole surface of the ground. ¹⁹