The first cycle of events has left the reader with numerous questions. What is heaven’s reaction to Job’s trial and response? Now that the Lord’s confidence in Job’s piety has been affirmed will the Satan relent and will Job be set free? It is upon these very issues that the second cycle of the narrative will turn. 2:1–2 The language here is identical to that of 1:6–7 with (the) Satan appearing, along with the angels (lit. “sons of God”), before the Lord. One phrase, however, is here added to tell