 Christian teaching about the Satan (Hebrew , "Adversary"), to whom God proposes his servant Job is that he appears in the heavenly court to challenge Job, with God's permission.This is one of two Old Testament passages, along with Zechariah 3, where Hebrew "ha-Satan" (the Adversary) becomes Greek "ho diabolos" (the Slanderer) in the Greek Septuagint used by the early Christian church.Originally, only the epithet of "the satan" ("the adversary") was used to denote the character in the Hebrew deity's court that later became known as "the Devil" (the term "satan" was also used to designate human enemies of the Hebrews that Yahweh raised against them).