Satan jumps to the bait. He is rightly named “the accuser.” His challenge is more an accusation against God than against Job. As Anderson puts it: With vulgar manners he refuses to use the conventional courtesies of court etiquette which avoided the personal pronouns by addressing a superior as “my lord” instead of “you” and using the deferential “your slave” instead of “I.” The Satan’s “thou” is thus insulting. Incidentally, this is further evidence that the Satan does not