Completely true, however I think there's another important thing to mention here - not only did the events of the story also directly effect her, and despite that no concern or empathy is given to her - but also none of it had anything to do with her. It was all about Job. It all happened because of him and him alone, right? As far as I remember, the story is all about god testing Job and his faith.
So, neither god nor Job really gave a shit about how Job's wife would feel on having her own children and family and home and life uprooted and taken away like this. To the males of patriarchal religious myths, wives are an afterthought and part of their own property. God doesn't think of the unfairness of hurting Job's wife for his religious test because he doesn't see her with the personhood he gives Job; he sees her as a part of Job's possessions and therefore her own character and her own desires about her own children don't matter in the end. She isn't named, she isn't consulted; no quarter is made for how his sadism to Job will also harm her.
Of course, this is because this god and his behavior was written by the misogynistic men who thought up the myth. And yes - in like turn, all the misogynistic men who follow the religion to this day approach the myth with the same mentality and the same blindness to female experience and humanity; and none of these pastors and theologians who claim to analyze all these biblical stories every way under the sun ever see this tremendous flaw.
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