Job 1:11-12 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Job 1:11-12: 1:11-12 reach out ... test him ... Do whatever you want: Satan was God’s agent; the hand he put forth was the Lord’s as well as Satan’s, for here they acted against everything Job possessed and later against Job himself (2:5-6 ). • Job later cursed the day of his birth (3:1 , 8 ), but he did not curse God (31:30 ), even when his distraught wife urged him to do so (2:9 ). • God allowed Satan to test Job to prove that Satan’s cynicism was incorrect (1 Cor 10:11 ; see Jas 1:13 ; cp. Luke 22:31-32 ; John 19:11 ).

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‏ Job 1:11-12

Summary for Job 1:11-12: 1:11-12 ^a reach out ... test him ... Do whatever you want: Satan was God’s agent; the hand he put forth was the Lord’s as well as Satan’s, for here they acted against everything Job possessed and later against Job himself (2:5-6 ^b).

• Job later cursed the day of his birth (3:1 ^c, 8 ^d), but he did not curse God (31:30 ^e), even when his distraught wife urged him to do so (2:9 ^f).

• God allowed Satan to test Job to prove that Satan’s cynicism was incorrect (1 Cor 10:11 ^g; see Jas 1:13 ^h; cp. Luke 22:31-32 ⁱ; John 19:11 ^j).