“However, it still doesn;t explain why was Job, blameless in God’s eyes like no other man on earth, subjected to such cruelty.”
I don’t know that he was, Kosta. That’s the point. Bats aren’t birds either.
We don't test our loved ones. We trust them. We test those we suspect of something. Maybe the bats are not birds, but the Book of Job is clear that it was Satan who incited God to destroy Job for no reason whatsoever. Is our God "incitable?"