Job 1:22

The Writer's judgment on Job's demeanour.

In all this Both in what he suffered and in what he said and did. Job's expressions of grief were no sin.

charged God foolishly Rather as margin, attributed folly to God. The word "folly" hardly expresses the idea, though a better word is not easy to find. The adj. signifies insipid, without savour, Job 6:6 (unsavoury), and the term here means moral impropriety; Job attributed no want of right moral savour to God's actions in His dealing with him. Others prefer the meaning: Gave God no cause of displeasure; a sense less suitable to the meaning of the word and to the connexion, for the action of the poem turns immediately on the estimate which Job will form of God, and whether in consequence he will renounce Him, and only indirectly on what God shall find in Job. But comp. Job 2:10.

The confident predictions of the Satan are wholly falsified.