Does God feel cruel?

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let's not forget about satan.

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan.

“From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and from walking back and forth in it.”

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.”

Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

You mean the angel who persuaded God to test Job by making his life a living hell? The angel whose name is actually a title whose original Hebrew meaning is "the Accuser" or "the Adversary"?



Everything Satan does is either at God's behest or with his approval. God might throw Satan under the bus in the end, but in the meantime he's happy let the Devil bedevil us. As far as I'm concerned, that is not to God's credit.