“Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.”
Satan's observation that God has blessed and protected Job creates the first appearance of the adversary's logic: remove the blessing and the righteousness will evaporate. Satan assumes a utilitarian human nature responsive only to reward and punishment, denying the possibility of love for God's own sake. This claim that Job's virtue is merely circumstantial and contingent sets the stage for the test that will either confirm or refute Satan's theology of the human heart.
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