Pss. 91; 121). Here, the adversary asks a question about the motivation for Job’s piety, and then he boldly charges that if Yahweh were to remove this hedge from Job and allow Job’s perfect life to be touched by calamity, then Job’s worship would morph into cursing. Interestingly, the Hebrew term that the adversary uses for “curse” typically has the opposite meaning, “bless”; the same term also has the meaning “curse” in 1:5, when Job offers sacrifices for his children in case they have sinned and