Are you forgetting Satan can do nothing without asking God first? It wasn't Satan who put Noah, Jonah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, Joshua, Saul, David, Gideon, etc. through all that stuff. It was God. God could have given the apostles an easier time. He didn't. He could have saved the Ten Booms. He didn't. He could have protected Joni's neck. He didn't. He could have protected the Trade Center. He didn't. He could have protected The Tube. He didn't. He uses everything to gather himself a people and then to refine his people.
I don't much bother with what Satan's doing. He lost. He lost way back in the garden. He lost when Jesus was in the wilderness. He lost when Jesus let himself be nailed onto that cross.
Read the OP verse. They aren't about Satan. They're about God's kids. And it was important enough that God made sure that same verse hit twice -- OT and NT -- so there is no chance we can confuse who it's about or come up with the age-old excuses.