I believe God revealed the Job story to someone, giving an accurate account of Job's trials. Tradition ascribes it to Moses. It may well be that God revealed all this to Moses in his weeks in the tabernacle. No one can be sure.
Satan did not actually say much to God. It was basically a challenge. God points out the kind of man that Job was and Satan says it's because Job is protected.
As far as the destruction of Job's life goes, it was Satan's doing, with God's permission. We know that Satan can influence the weather. Lord Jesus rebuked the storm. I've had to do that myself. I wish I knew that while I was in the Navy. We went through some terrible storms but I knew nothing of spiritual warfare at the time.
The Sabeans apparently came from the area known as Yemen now. Some commentators say that they were marauding predators.
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/job/1-15.htm may help you.
About 40 years ago, I got deceived. I let my guard down. I thought that something was God's will and it was not. I knew better. The moment I decided, I lost all my peace. I was tormented night and day for 6 months. I had all kinds of signs that seemed to confirm that it was indeed God's will. Yet I had insomnia that I could do nothing about. I overlooked God's word that says we should let the peace of God rule like an umpire in our hearts. If we have no peace, then we need to stop and think again. But wanted something so badly that I ignored the truth that I knew. That is spiritually foolish. When I finally gave up, my mind stopped racing and I had the a proper sleep for the first time in 6 months. God was not doing this to me. I was in the hands of the tormentors, aka evil spirits. God gave them permission, for my sake, so I could come to a place where I realised that I was wrong. I learned a hard lesson at that time.
God is well able to turn things for our good. I met a man who was to be my friend and mentor. He was generous in every way, including his time. He worked full time and led a home based fellowship as well. He took the time to help me to see what had gone wrong. Satan had set out to destroy me and he came close. But God's grace and mercy prevailed. One of the incidents that woke me up was a minor car accident. I was service tech for alarm systems. I was so tired that I lost concentration while doing a U-turn. The car was still driveable. I went back to the office and told the boss I was taking 2 weeks off. I had time to consider what was really going on. It was not pretty.
Satan did not actually say much to God. It was basically a challenge. God points out the kind of man that Job was and Satan says it's because Job is protected.
As far as the destruction of Job's life goes, it was Satan's doing, with God's permission. We know that Satan can influence the weather. Lord Jesus rebuked the storm. I've had to do that myself. I wish I knew that while I was in the Navy. We went through some terrible storms but I knew nothing of spiritual warfare at the time.
The Sabeans apparently came from the area known as Yemen now. Some commentators say that they were marauding predators.
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/job/1-15.htm may help you.
About 40 years ago, I got deceived. I let my guard down. I thought that something was God's will and it was not. I knew better. The moment I decided, I lost all my peace. I was tormented night and day for 6 months. I had all kinds of signs that seemed to confirm that it was indeed God's will. Yet I had insomnia that I could do nothing about. I overlooked God's word that says we should let the peace of God rule like an umpire in our hearts. If we have no peace, then we need to stop and think again. But wanted something so badly that I ignored the truth that I knew. That is spiritually foolish. When I finally gave up, my mind stopped racing and I had the a proper sleep for the first time in 6 months. God was not doing this to me. I was in the hands of the tormentors, aka evil spirits. God gave them permission, for my sake, so I could come to a place where I realised that I was wrong. I learned a hard lesson at that time.
God is well able to turn things for our good. I met a man who was to be my friend and mentor. He was generous in every way, including his time. He worked full time and led a home based fellowship as well. He took the time to help me to see what had gone wrong. Satan had set out to destroy me and he came close. But God's grace and mercy prevailed. One of the incidents that woke me up was a minor car accident. I was service tech for alarm systems. I was so tired that I lost concentration while doing a U-turn. The car was still driveable. I went back to the office and told the boss I was taking 2 weeks off. I had time to consider what was really going on. It was not pretty.
