But that's exactly what scripture says ─ God is a murderous and arbitrary autarch and Satan is simply a guy who works for [him] ─ As in the opening of Job for example.
God likes human sacrifice.
Genesis 22:2
Exodus 22:29-30
Leviticus 27:28-29
Numbers 31:25-30,
Numbers 40-41
Joshua 6:21
Judges 11:30-39
2 Samuel 21
Jonah 1
NT ─ God refuses to forgive sin until Jesus is made a sacrifice to [him].
God likes invasive wars and massacres of populations eg
Deuteronomy 7:1-2 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations...then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy." (and again at 20:16
God orders mass rape ─ Numbers 31:9-17.
God’s rules for buying, owning, disciplining, bonking, selling &c slaves are set out in Exodus 20-21, 22:1-3, 23:12, 26-27, 32, Leviticus 19:20-22, 25:39-55, Deuteronomy 5:14, 15:12-18, 21:10-14, 23:15-16, 24:7. including, famously, how to sell your daughter.
God murders children for being rude to Elisha about his bald head ─ 2 Kings 2:23.
God condones the ripping open of pregnant women as part of massacring one’s enemies ─ Hosea 13:16.
How can God's humble servant Satan compete with God's large-scale evil? Nowhere does it say Satan even tried.