Doth Job fear God for nought?
Hast not thou made an hedge about him,
and about his house,
and about all that he hath on every side?
Job 1:9,10
"Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows.
When he was suffered to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that shields His creatures and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer."
The Great Controversy p.589 E.G.W.