Job 1:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Hast thou considered my servant Job, &c.?— The Hebrew, לבךֶ השׂמת hasamta libbeka, literally signifies, hast thou put thy heart, &c. The words going to and fro, &c. in the preceding verse, imply roving about with an evil intention, and with a determined resolution of doing mischief; in allusion to which, Satan is now questioned by the Deity, whether he had viewed Job with his natural malignity, and with an intention to involve him in misery. Schultens.

Job 1:8

8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou consideredd 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?