5. When the days of the feast had been completed, Job would send word and purify his children. Getting up early in the morning, he prepared entirely burned offerings for each one of them, for Job thought, Perhaps my children have sinned and then cursed God in their hearts. Job did this regularly.
6. One day the divine beings came to present themselves before the Lord, and the Adversary also came among them.
7. The Lord said to the Adversary, "Where did you come from?"The Adversary answered the Lord, "From wandering throughout the earth."
8. The Lord said to the Adversary, "Have you thought about my servant Job; surely there is no one like him on earth, a man who is honest, who is of absolute integrity, who reveres God and avoids evil?"
9. The Adversary answered the Lord, "Does Job revere God for nothing?