Job 1:7
Good News Translation
The LORD asked him, "What have you been doing?" Satan answered, "I have been walking here and there, roaming around the earth."

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

Contemporary English Version
the LORD asked, "Satan, where have you been?" Satan replied, "I have been going all over the earth."

New American Bible
The LORD said to the satan, “Where have you been?” Then the satan answered the LORD and said, “Roaming the earth and patrolling it.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

Whence.

Job 2:2 That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou? And he answered, and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

2 Kings 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said: Whence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither.

From going.

Zechariah 1:10,11 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said: These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth. . . .

Zechariah 6:7 And they that were most strong, went out, and sought to go, and to run to and fro through all the earth. And he said: Go, walk throughout the earth: and they walked throughout the earth.

Matthew 12:43 And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Revelation 12:9,12-17 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him. . . .

Revelation 20:8 And they came upon the breadth of the earth and encompassed the camp of the saints and the beloved city.

Context
Satan's First Attack
6Now on a certain day, when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them. 7And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.8And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil?…
Cross References
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Zechariah 1:10
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said: These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.

Job 1:6
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