What particular action that is in excess to God's Permissive Will did Satan commit in the Garden of Eden? Reading God's judgement on Adam &amp; Eve and Satan would allow us to see and understand that Satan had done something in excess that merited not just a punishment but a &quot;curse&quot;.
We can see from the Book of Job, God sets the limits on what Satan was allowed to do.
Job 1:8-12 New International Version (NIV)

8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
12 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”
Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

We can see from Book of Job, God sets limits to what Satan can do, otherwise as St.Augustine said if God had given Satan a freehand no man shall be alive.
So, back in the Garden of Eden, surely Satan under God's permissive Will had given access to tempt Adam &amp; Eve but the judgment of God implied not just a punishment but a curse towward Satan action, which basing on the Book of Job should not be the case as Satan is clearly instructed on the limits.
God's judgment or the &quot;cursed punishment&quot; goes like this;

So the LORD God said to the serpent: “BECAUSE YOU HAVE DONE THIS, Cursed are you above all livestock, and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life. (Genesis3:14)

My question is, what is the meaning or the so called overly done action does the serpent had committed for God to said the words &quot;BECAUSE YOU HAVE DONE THIS&quot;?
My impression is, if Satan just followed the limits of whatever God's instructions had given to him in tempting Adam &amp; Eve, satan would have not merited a &quot;curse&quot;.
I'm looking for a Catholic perspective although a biblical explanations from Christian faith would also be helpful.
No one can ever do anything God does not permit
That is what is meant by God's &quot;permissive&quot; will. God's permissive will exists in cosmologies wherein God's sustaining presence is such that without God's present sustaining action literally nothing would happen. Rocks would not fall, people would not be able to move their arms, the earth may or may not (depending on theologian) continue to possess any sort of physical extent or even exist at all, etc.  Literally everything that happens, in this view, must be actively allowed by God because were it not the will of God, permissively, then it could not happen.
Therefore, it is not correct to say that Satan took (or could take) any action God did not or would not permit, but rather and only that Satan did something contrary to the active will of God (viz. the sort of thing God would say He willed/wanted if you asked Him), that is, something which offended God.
Given, then, that there is no sort of 'special' sin being committed here (nor could there be; sin may be greater or lesser in gravity but it is all the same sort of stuff), the apparent difficulty is removed: the 'curse' is no different than any other sort of God-imposed punishment for sin, special in the case of Adam and Eve only in that prior to it they had not yet sinned, and not notable in the case of Satan any more than any other of his multitudinous iniquities.  To ask what the 'this' in 'because you have done this' is is merely to ask what Satan did prior to the statement which was morally wrong, which is pretty evident in the text.