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The book of Job has been highly spoken of by many, both inside the Christian church and out. Thomas Carlyle, the nineteenth-century man of letters, wrote of it, “I call it, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.… There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.” Martin Luther described it as “magnificent and...

distortion. Satan is no atheist and he cannot deny the existence of piety. But he sees everything through his own perverted understanding. ‘For no reason’ (1:9) is the dark filter through which he views both human piety and divine praise. For him true religion is a protection racket. It cannot ever be that anyone serves the Lord ‘for no reason’—that is, for love’s sake. Piety is self-centred, and so is God! God buys praise by selling protection and Job pays for prosperity by his loyalty—and Satan
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