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Job 1:8

Job 1:8 is verse 8 of Job chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

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King James Version

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?

World English Bible

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

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Job 1:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

7 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

9 Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

10 Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 2:3

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Job 34:14

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Ezekiel 40:4

“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”

Numbers 12:7

But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.

Numbers 12:8

I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

Psalms 89:20

I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.

Isaiah 42:1

“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

Numbers 12:3

Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 4:31

He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.

2 Kings 23:25

Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

Job 8:20

Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

Job 9:22

It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Job 9:23

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Psalms 18:23

And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

Job 17:8

The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

Job 17:9

Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Job 23:11

My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Psalms 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

Nehemiah 5:15

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

Psalms 36:1

An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Proverbs 8:13

To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

Luke 23:39

One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!”

Luke 23:40

But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment?

Psalms 34:14

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalms 37:27

Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

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