Word: comest
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...mixes ejaculations of piety with postgame Islamic towel snapping and a chillingly cynical amusement at the sucker martyrs. Combine the piety and the thug's mirth, and you get something of that lounging insolence with which Satan, at the opening of the Book of Job, answers God's "Whence comest thou?" with: "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." A sneering theological swagger. Evil usually feels comfortable with itself. If it had doubts, it would not be evil...
Evil drops in with that surprising air of nonchalance and swagger that Satan affects at the start of the Book of Job, when the sons of God come to present themselves before the Lord, and the Lord says to Satan, "Whence comest thou," and Satan, with his evasive, insinuating smirk, replies, "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down...