Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 1:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
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Role in This Section
Job 1:9 advances the thought unit with the words “Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?.” The adversary challenges whether Job fears God without material reward.
Read It With
- Job 1:6–1:12
Read Job 1:9 with 1:6–1:12. Read alone, “Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: The heavenly court assembles; the adversary questions whether Job fears God without reward, and the LORD permits a bounded attack on Job's possessions and household.
Why It Needs Context
Job 1:9 depends on 1:6–1:12; isolating “Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from The prose narrator and “The Heavenly Council Tests Disinterested Integrity.”
Read Job 1:6–12 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 1:6–1:12 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained prose scene: “The Heavenly Council Tests Disinterested Integrity.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 6. 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Verse 7. 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Verse 8. 8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Verse 9. 9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Verse 10. 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Verse 11. 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Verse 12. 12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 1:6–1:12 — The Heavenly Council Tests Disinterested IntegritySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 1:6–1:12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 1:6–1:12
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