Hi cee! Haven't seen you in a while. Hope you're doing well!
Job does not show God permitting satan to bring evil to touch Job because satan has free will. It shows God giving permission to satan to touch Job (with strict limits given each time). That doesn't say that satan may bring any harms/evils/buffetings to Job simply because satan has the free will to do so. He had to have permission. But this does not mean that God caused satan to do evil or commit atrocities to the man. Permitting something and being the cause of something are not the same thing.
Job does not show God permitting satan to bring evil to touch Job because satan has free will. It shows God giving permission to satan to touch Job (with strict limits given each time). That doesn't say that satan may bring any harms/evils/buffetings to Job simply because satan has the free will to do so. He had to have permission. But this does not mean that God caused satan to do evil or commit atrocities to the man. Permitting something and being the cause of something are not the same thing.
I have a different view on Job which I've shared before, but not many agree. But to address what you said, I do agree God did put limits on his man Job. And God further worked it out for good because Job ended up repenting of his lack of understanding. And I fully agree that God doesn't cause evil, I believe when Scripture says I "create evil" the idea is that by creating man, He created evil. But to take it even even further like I said in the other post, I do think it's sometimes a theological error to try to define God through only an OT lens without a NT confirmation.
What's intriguing to me about the relationship of the enemy and God, is that Jesus actually tricked him into crucifying him. It doesn't say that the enemy was forced to do it. But rather God on the sly caused even the death of His Son to work out for good.
“….the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” – I Corinthians 2:8