concludes by blessing Yahweh, not by cursing him as the adversary predicted in 1:11. The narrator puts a final exclamation point on Job’s response: “In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing” (1:22). Only on rare occasions does the Bible part the curtains so that the reader can catch a glimpse of what is happening behind the scenes of human history. In Ephesians 6:12, Paul says that Christians struggle against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly
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