“Therein, each appearance of the “devil” can easily be attributed to God Himself, but for Job, which most rabbinical sources feel to be a fictional account for illustrative purposes.”
It’s funny. In his first appearance in the Bible, we have the devil asking “Did God really say that?”, and now we have the rabbis asking much the same thing about the devil in the Bible: “Sure, he’s there, but did God really mean that?”