would be a spy’s reporting to his commander what he has discovered during his latest mission. Indeed, Pope makes a specific connection with Persian spies who were called “The King’s Eye” and “The King’s Ear.”26 The text does not indicate what he was on the lookout for, but in the next section the conversation turns, at Yahweh’s instigation, to the character of Job’s piety. 8 And Yahweh said to the accuser, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, an innocent