“But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
Satan's wager—that if God removes Job's blessings, Job will curse God—explicitly frames the test as one of God's power to maintain covenant even when all tangible grounds for fidelity are removed. The gauntlet is thrown: can there be faith without reward, worship without prosperity, trust without evidence of divine care? Satan's confident prediction reveals both his investment in demonstrating human corruption and his assumption about the weakness of human virtue when unprotected by divine favor.
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