"Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give all he has for his own life. But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face."

• Satan was completely proven wrong, yet he deceptively, angrily poses another challenge
• Satan can only afflict with God’s permission
• Satan accuses Job of willing to give up anything and everything to save his own life
• The antithesis of great love
• "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Jn 15:13
• Satan assumes that each of us has a price for which we will deny our faith

• If we faced the sudden loss of all the blessings of God which we take for granted, would we remain faithful?
• Perhaps God knows our limits and therefore protects us from Satan.
• If this is true, is it an indictment on the shallowness of our relationship with God?
• Faith grows large and deep only when it is tested !