Job 1:8

Such was Job’s character as given by God. He asked Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him” (v. 8). Satan, in reply, says in effect, “Strip him, and he will curse Thee to Thy face.”

Satan sought Job’s fall; God sought his blessing. Satan gets leave from God to strip Job. With malignant energy he sets to work, and in one day he brings the greatest man in all the East into abject poverty and visits him with sore bereavement. Blow after blow of such a crushing nature and with such rapidity falls upon Job that one marvels at the testimony of the Holy Ghost that: “In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing” (v. 22). What a triumph for God! What a defeat for Satan!

We ourselves also were sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.—Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Job answered the Lord , and said, Behold, I am vile: what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.—The Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?