And not only so, he appears to delight in it. The picture given here is of a being who seems wholly committed to the downfall of righteous and godly people. So the Satan comes into court, where God asks what he has been up to. Then God initiates the drama of the book of Job by drawing attention to Job’s character. ‘Have you considered my servant Job?’ (1:8). (Notice, in passing, this reference to Job as God’s ‘servant’. The significance of this will become clearer later on.) But
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