Why did God do Satan’s bidding?

[Zen Badger]

I know that your mind set is to think that God is controlling Satan but as the wording and God’s actions clearly shows, this is not so. Satan ruled God that day.

Satan had to ask permission of God to touch anything of Job's. God also told him "on the man himself do not lay a finger" and Satan could not. If God demonstrates the perseverance of a believer and then shows His hand in blessing Job afterward, to be written down in the most read book in existence, who manipulated who? God got what he wanted out of the encounter, and Satan was made to look like a fool, unable to even compel Job to doubt God when given every earthly power. The story is one of the triumph of spiritual truth over earthly influence. God loved Job not to give him more than he could handle, and Job came out the other side a better man. At some point, a parent has to send their kid to school--knowing he will get picked on, yet aware of the good that will come of it. I'm sure Job would be proud to hear that the story of his life reached an atheist forum thousands of years later.

The fact that Jobs kids got murdered in the process is entirely beside the point.

Isn't it.......