The extent of Satan’s power revealed in launching this assault on Job is surprising. He apparently has a vast ability to coordinate events in Job’s life.
Even though it does not happen to us on the same scale as Job, we too are sometimes faced with a one disaster after another. We too must relate all these things to the Lord’s sovereign plan, and continue to hold on to the loving kindness and goodness of the Lord. Sometimes, faced with the loss of an earthly blessing, our reaction is to flee to another for comfort, instead of to God, who should be our only comfort. But Job here has nothing left. Satan has taken all from him. A worldling in this situation having no earthly support left, would indeed reveal himself to be at his wit’s end, but Job does not. Temptations often come to us as manifold temptations and this is a far greater trial for us, for we are not given time to recover from one before the next comes. Not the least part of this temptation for Job was the possible thought that God had sent these things as a punishment, and that is the simplistic solution which his friends urge on him throughout the book. Job does not seem unduly troubled by this at first.