Job 1:6 (WEB)

Passage

Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.

Nearby Context

Job 1:4 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Job 1:5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

Job 1:6 Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.

Job 1:7 Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Job 1:8 Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sons", "came", "present", "themselves", "before", "yahweh", and "satan". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sons" and "came", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "It was so when the days of..." into verse 7's "Yahweh said to Satan Where have you...", so "sons" and "came" belong inside that flow. In Job context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sons" and "came" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.