never violate our divinely created civil liberties (“free will”) by interfering with the course of human events. Thus the righteousness of God and the righteousness of humankind would appear to be in place, and the evil power of Satan alone would account for the suffering of the saints. God would seem to have been rescued. But the god who is thus rescued is so weak as to be no god at all.4 It was not so in Job’s day. Top priority, and the last line to be defended, was the honor, integrity, and reputation