Satan Denies Job’s Goodness

‎Job’s prosperity seemed to suggest that he was especially favored of Heaven for his goodness. So indeed he was. Having described his happy condition, the Book of Job turns next to a remarkable scene which is represented as occurring in the presence of God himself.

‎The “sons of God,” all the powers and spirits of Heaven, “came to present themselves before the Lord.” Among them came Satan, or as he is called in the Hebrew, “the Adversary.” This mocking “spirit that denies” was questioned by the Lord as to where he had been. Satan said he came “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” The Lord asked if he had noted Job? There was no other man, declared the Lord, so perfect and so upright.

‎Satan answered with open malice that it was a wise thing for Job to be good since therefore the Lord had “made a hedge about him, and about his house,” so that no evil could reach the man. Job had seen that goodness brought prosperity. “But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.”

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