It’s retconned that way. There’s nothing that directly connects the serpent of Genesis, the one “roaming throughout the earth” in Job, and the character of Satan later on. Satan wasn’t developed as a character until after the Babylonian Exile. You can make it all fit, but the text alone doesn’t say that and the writers didn’t think of it that way.
The devil was not there in Eden. The Bible simply says a serpent.
The bible says lots of stuff, like this weird erotica about two slutty concubine sisters and how much they loved removed (which was too much):
“There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”
https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/23-20.htm
Truly, Divine Inspiration was given that day to that author. Praise be to Him for sharing His weird Smut with us little people.
The serpent is an embodiment of Satan
It’s retconned that way. There’s nothing that directly connects the serpent of Genesis, the one “roaming throughout the earth” in Job, and the character of Satan later on. Satan wasn’t developed as a character until after the Babylonian Exile. You can make it all fit, but the text alone doesn’t say that and the writers didn’t think of it that way.
Exactly, all my downvotes for stating a historical fact about a fictional book
Excellent contribution