difficult task throughout his work: continually to characterize Job as innocent and not to characterize Yahweh as demonic. 7 This scene focuses on the dialogue between Yahweh and the Satan. Yahweh began by asking the Satan for an accounting of his activities and whereabouts. The Satan responded that he had been roaming through the earth and going to and fro in it. The term roaming suggests that he moved randomly about the earth, perhaps like an emperor’s spy looking for any secret disloyalty to the