When next they meet, God chides Satan for his failure: Job “still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause” (2:3 RSV). What kind of God is this, that trifles with the lives and flesh of humans in order to win a bet? This God seems too bent on sheer power to mark the sufferings of mere people. The author seems to deliberately ridicule the God of a degenerate Deuteronomic theology. That God (represented by Job’s three “comforters”), who rewards the wealthy,