One very typical, but interesting, story in the KJV Bible is the story of Job. Job was a man with seven sons and three daughters. He had a lot of wealth since God blessed him because of his great loyalty towards him. One day, Satan just comes up to God along with the angels:
"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them." The Book of Job 1:6
It's pretty strange. Satan, the king of all evil, follows God's angels and just shows up in front of him as if nothing really happened, and they just start talking to each other like old buddies. Then, Satan somehow manages to persuade God to allow him to technically do cruel things to this very innocent and loyal man. But, I guess it's okay since it's actually Satan doing the bad things and God is only letting him do it because he is testing Job.
Anyway, Satan keeps on bringing unfortunate events to Job so that he will lose faith in God. It's sort of like an experiment: Satan tries to find the right ingredient to have Job lose faith in God. Satan tries many things: He takes away his livestock, his servants, and even all his children. While still suffering from all this, Satan pushes it a little more by giving Job horrible sores all over his body, and his wife tries to persuade him to curse God. But, none of these ingredients seem to have worked on Job even though he suffered a lot, for he always praised God, no matter what.
Although the story of Job isn't very exciting because it is a bit predictable, some parts of it were still interesting. I think it had too much text, but I guess it was generally okay.
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