“Are you a chaste man, or merely a coward?”
I did not answer him, but he went on.
“The Lord God allowed me to beset Job with disaster, but you I will curse with conviction.
Right or wrong, I will have you never doubt yourself.
Your resolve will never fail, and always you will esteem your own judgement to be fair and wise.
Advice you shall shun, and critique you will skewer.
You will master your own fate. Let us see if man can stand as his own judge.”
I turned away from the devil, knowing he is a lover of idle talk…