Reverting to the history of Job: the great accuser, having no fault
to find with his character or life, insinuates that it is all the
result of selfishness. "Doth Job fear GOD for nought." Indeed, he did
not, as Satan well knew! Nor has anyone, before or since, ever feared
GOD for nought. There is no service which pays so well as the service
of our HEAVENLY MASTER; there is none so royally rewarded. Satan was
making a true assertion, but the insinuation he connected with it,
that it was for the sake of this reward that Job served GOD, was not
true.
To vindicate the character of Job himself in the sight of the angels
of GOD, as well as of the evil spirits, Satan is permitted to test
Job, and take away all those treasures for the sake of which alone
Satan imagined, or pretended to imagine, that Job was serving GOD.
"All that he hath," said GOD, "is in thy power; only upon himself put
not forth thine hand."