So you are just going to outright evade supporting your claim that, "According to the definition of God with which Job was operating, God indeed seemed to be inefficient in managing the Universe."
Complains Job:
3 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 He said:
3 “May the day of my birth perish,
and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’
4 That day—may it turn to darkness;
may God above not care about it;
may no light shine on it.
5 May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;
may a cloud settle over it;
may blackness overwhelm it.
6 That night—may thick darkness seize it;
may it not be included among the days of the year
nor be entered in any of the months.
7 May that night be barren;
may no shout of joy be heard in it.
8 May those who curse days[a] curse that day,
those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 May its morning stars become dark;
may it wait for daylight in vain
and not see the first rays of dawn,
10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me
to hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why did I not perish at birth,
and die as I came from the womb?
12 Why were there knees to receive me
and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down in peace;
I would be asleep and at rest
14 with kings and rulers of the earth,
who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,
15 with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,
like an infant who never saw the light of day?
17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,
and there the weary are at rest.
18 Captives also enjoy their ease;
they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the slaves are freed from their owners.
20 “Why is light given to those in misery,
and life to the bitter of soul,
21 to those who long for death that does not come,
who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
22 who are filled with gladness
and rejoice when they reach the grave?
23 Why is life given to a man
whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
24 For sighing has become my daily food;
my groans pour out like water.
25 What I feared has come upon me;
what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 I have no peace, no quietness;
I have no rest, but only turmoil.”
Only someone who believes that God is inefficient in managing the Universe, or that God is unfair, can complain like that.
Look then from chapter 38 onward, where God speaks to Job:
/.../
“Do you give the horse its strength
or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
Do you make it leap like a locust,
striking terror with its proud snorting?
/.../
“Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom
and spread its wings toward the south?
Does the eagle soar at your command
and build its nest on high?
/.../
“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him?
Let him who accuses God answer him!”
/.../
“Would you discredit my justice?
Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
Do you have an arm like God’s,
and can your voice thunder like his?
Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,
and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
Unleash the fury of your wrath,
look at all who are proud and bring them low,
look at all who are proud and humble them,
crush the wicked where they stand.
Bury them all in the dust together;
shroud their faces in the grave.
Then I myself will admit to you
that your own right hand can save you.
/.../
No one is fierce enough to rouse it [the leviathan].
Who then is able to stand against me?
Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.
/.../
In the end, God is putting Job in his place. Which is awkward, given that God started out by saying that Job is blameless.
Instead, you are cross-posting from a GIA thread, and essentially dismissing the entire reference you were trying to use to make your original point.
You brought up Job as an example of an innocent person who faced hardship through no fault of their own.
Some of us argued from the beginning on that this cannot be the case.
God decided that no one was beyond testing. Simple as that. That Satan brought it to his attention is immaterial, as Job was blessed beyond what he had known previous to his testing:
12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. ...
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. -Job 42
Those blessings were just material things. Things that, given their nature, are subject to aging, illness and death.
Had the point been made that Job eventually attained enlightenment and went beyond aging, illness and death, beyond greed, anger and delusion, that would be a higher blessing.
So Satan's purpose in pointing this out completely failed. He neither proved Job unrighteous nor did anything more than cause temporary woes. God gave Satan the rope to hang his own machinations.
So earlier, you said it is irrelevant that it was Satan who challenged God to test Job's faith.
But here, you are suggesting that God tested Job to prove Satan wrong?
Needless to say, God being omniscient, knew how things would develop anyway, so on His part, no testing is necessary to find out how things stand.
So we're left with the conclusion that God tested Job to:
a) teach Job a lesson,
b) teach Satan a lesson,
c) set a didactic example for anyone hearing about the testing of Job and how it came about,
d) the whole story is a hoax.
