Soldati senza confini wrote:Gim wrote:I'm pretty sure God used Satan to test Job, thereby making him a righteous person. Just because God and Satan talked together doesn't mean they're friends.
You're forgetting the fact that Job was already what could have been considered the most righteous among people and God actually blessed him for it, if one is to go by the book's dialogue.
Well, contrary to your comment that Satan and God worked together, God sought to prove Satan that Job is indeed a faithful person, even if his possessions are taken away. Satan thinks Job is faithful to God, because he has materialistic wealth. God proved Satan wrong, when Job maintained his faith towards God, even if he suffered plagues, trials, and tribulations.
Satan told God the following:
Job 1:9-11
“Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
God wanted to prove him wrong by testing the faith of Job.