each one of them. Job had a sense that all might not be well with his children, and he feared that they might have committed the really serious sin of cursing God, a sin meriting the death penalty in Israel. Perhaps all was not as well as it appeared with Job’s children, but his greatest fear appears to be that their behavior would bring God’s judgment rather than his ongoing blessing. Therefore, part of Job’s religion was motivated by an unhealthy anxiety and fear. Let’s look more closely at Satan’s
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