What Does Job 1:6 Mean in the King James?

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

Job 1:6 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The adversary enters the LORD’s gathering, revealing that opposition can be present within divine sight.

THE MEANING

Opposition can stand within the same field of presence that holds you; its arrival does not make the LORD absent. The verse keeps the gathering and the challenge within it in view at once.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The presence of opposition means the LORD has left the scene.

THE ROOT

הַשָּׂטָן

ha-satan

GROWS FROM

שׂטן

To oppose or act as an adversary.

“Satan” in this verse is ha-satan. The Hebrew calls him “the adversary,” naming the force he embodies as well as the figure in the scene. Opposition enters the assembly before the LORD, rather than appearing outside the field of divine presence.

ALSO GROWS

satan: Adversary, opponent

שָׂטָן

This noun names the adversarial presence that comes among the gathered beings.

sitnah: Hostility, accusation

שִׂטְנָה

This related form shows the same root reaching into hostile accusation, making opposition an active role as well as a presence.

THE PATTERN

The heavenly court holds opposition within view as the LORD presides over the gathering.

And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

1 Kings 22:19 · KJVThe LORD presides while the heavenly host stands around him, presenting a gathered court before divine sight.

And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

Zechariah 3:1 · KJVThe adversary stands in the divine scene itself, where his opposition is exposed rather than hidden.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Revelation 12:10 · KJVThe accuser’s presence before God is named openly, placing accusation within the scope of divine attention.

THE THREAD

And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

Zechariah 3:1 · KJV

The same Hebrew root names the adversary in both verses. Zechariah makes the role’s force visible: the adversary stands to resist, clarifying what Job’s figure brings into the gathering.

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