The book of Job opens with God’s challenge to Satan: “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him” (1:8). No matter what happened to Job, whether calamity, suffering, slander, ridicule, or other torment, whether afflicted by enemy or friend, God could say of Job, “He still maintains his integrity” (2:3). When God evaluated the words spoken between Job and his friends, he gave Job credit for speaking what was right (42:7). More than a thousand years after Job,