“But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
Satan's demand to touch Job's bone and flesh explicitly escalates from destroying Job's possessions to afflicting his body, extending the test into the realm of personal agony and physical degradation. The challenge assumes that bodily suffering will shatter the barriers of righteous resolve and force Job to curse God. Satan's confidence that affliction will accomplish what loss of wealth could not reveals his conviction that human virtue is fundamentally fragile when tested by pain.
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