as it were, damned if he does and damned if she doesn’t. The author/editor of the book clearly felt no need to invoke divine omniscience as a solution to the situation. Nor did he operate with the notion that God “allows.” It will be recalled that all that happens is under the “hand” of God. This is really the hand of the satan, as the Lord tells him to stretch out his hand against Job (1:12); the satan asks God to stretch out God’s hand in 2:5, and God decides that Job is in the satan’s “hand” (or