A Protected Soul

Dicit ergo Dominus: Ecce in manu tua est, verumtamen animam ejus serva. Licet Job esset una ovium, de quibus Dominus dicit, nullus eas de manu mea eruet: eum tamen in manu adversarii ponit, sed positum non relinquit. Suum ergo militem deserit, quem deserendo custodit. Eum deserit, ut tentetur; eum vero custodit, ne tentatione vincatur, Ecce, inquit, in manu tua est, verumtamen animam ejus serva, id est, serva, ne in animam illius aliquid attentare praesumas. Quum multae sint tribulationes justorum, per multas tribulationes oportet ingredi regnum Dei. Torquentur corpora Sanctorum, sed animae non turbantur. Concutitur laterna lucens, nec lucerna extinguitur: trituratur palea, nec laeditur granura. Thesaurus, quera portamus in vase fictili, fracto vase non perditur. Posito itaque corpore Job in manu hostili, et tormentis exposito, anima conservatur indemnis. Justorum autem animae in manu Dei sunt, et non tangit illos tormentum malitiae. Petrus Blenensis, Compendium In Job: Ad Henericum II Illustrissimum Anglorum Regem, Caput II Source: Migne PL 207.817a-b

The Lord says: Behold, he is in your hand, but his soul is protected. 1 It is possible that Job is one of the sheep about whom the Lord says: 'None of these shall be lost from my hand,' 2 but though He has placed him in the hand of the enemy, He has not forsaken him who is so placed. Therefore He gives up His soldier,  yet in abandonment He guards him. He gives him up so that He is tested, but He protects him lest trial conquer him. 'Behold,' He says, 'he is in your hand, but his soul is protected,' that is, it is protected so that you do not presume to try some assault on his soul. Many are the tribulations of the righteous, through which many tribulations it is necessary to enter into the kingdom of heaven. 3 The bodies of the saints are tormented, but their souls are not thrown into confusion. The shining lantern is shaken but the light is not extinguished. The chaff is threshed but the grain is not destroyed. The treasure which we carry in the earthen vessel does not perish with the vessel. 4 Thus with his body placed in the hand of the enemy and exposed to torments, the soul is preserved unharmed. 'The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God and the torment of wickedness does not touch them.' 5 Peter of Blois, Compendium On Job, To Henry II Most Illustrious King Of The English, Chapter 2 1 Job 2.6 2 Hosea 2.10 Vulg, Jn 10.28 3 Ps 33.20, Acts 14.21 4 2 Cor 4.7 5 Wisd 3.1