the sake of wealth. Job’s amazing response showed Satan to be utterly wrong in predicting that Job would curse God. Devotion is possible without the dollar received in return. Man can be godly apart from material gain. Job’s saintly worship at the moment of extreme loss and intense grief verified God’s words. Satan did not give up, however. In the second test (2:1–10), he again indicted God’s word and impugned Job’s motives and character. In this third scene, back in heaven, Satan implied that Job