Job 2:2

And the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, ¹  “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.” ² 

Ge 16:8; Job 1:7; Joh 14:30; 2Co 4:4; 1Pe 5:8

¹ tn Heb “answered the Lord and said” (also in v. 4). The words “and said” here and in v. 9 have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn See the note on this phrase in 1:7.