Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.
- KJV Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
- BSB One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
- NASB Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
- NLT One day the members of the heavenly court came to present themselves before the Lord, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them.
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Quick answer
The scene shifts to the heavenly court, where the angelic "sons of God" present themselves and Satan appears among them. It reveals an unseen spiritual reality behind Job's earthly trials.
Overview
This verse pulls back the curtain on a heavenly assembly where Satan, the accuser, comes before the LORD. It teaches that events on earth have causes in the unseen realm and that Satan operates only within God's permission. Christians find assurance that no power, including the accuser, acts outside God's sovereign rule, a truth fully secured in Christ's victory over the powers.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Job 2:1Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.
- Job 38:7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- Zech 3:1He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
- Rev 12:9–10The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
- 1 Kgs 22:19Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
- Gen 6:4The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- 1 Chr 21:1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
- John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
- Matt 18:10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
- Ps 103:20Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
- Gen 6:2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
- Luke 3:38the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
- Dan 3:25He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
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