Job 1:19

"A great wind": Suggests something like. tornado or whirling wind that gained in momentum as it came across the desert. "It fell on the young people and they died": Job's children are grown and yet they are still young. "A man's children are dearer than any earthly treasure. Ten funerals! How can he bear it? Surely Job will break under such. weight of grief-so Satan hoped" (Jackson p. 21). Yes, Satan knows what will cause many men to break, yet he cannot break one determined to be faithful. The way that we can really get under Satan's skin is to remain calm, confident, joyful, and faithful even during times of trouble. Notice the contrast. God so loved the world that He gave His only Son (John 3:16), Satan will destroy everything we have in the attempt to break us, he will even kill our children-given the chance!