A common misinterpretation treats Satan's statement as an infallible truth about universal human selfishness, justifying the idea that all piety is transactional or that suffering inevitably reveals self-interest, ignoring its context as the accuser's deceptive challenge within a divine dialogue testing genuine faith, not a prescriptive doctrine on human nature.
Job 2:4
King James Version (1769)
4 And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
In Job 2:4, Satan cynically asserts to God that Job's faithfulness stems from self-preservation rather than true devotion, claiming people will sacrifice anything—even 'skin for skin'—to protect their own lives, thus challenging the sincerity of human loyalty amid prosperity and urging a deeper test through personal suffering to expose potential hypocrisy.