Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.
Satan, that sworn enemy to God and all good men, is here pushing forward his malicious prosecution of Job, whom he hated because God loved him, and did all he could to separate between him and his God, to sow discord and make mischief between them, urging God to afflict him and then urging him to blaspheme God.
Commenting on Job 2:1-6
Again, there was a day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,.... When good men, professors of religion, met together by agreement to worship the Lord; the Targum calls them companies of angels, interpreting the words of them, and of their standing before the Lord, as most interpreters do; how long this time of their meeting was from the former...
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. (a) That is, the angels, . (b) Read .