In Job 38-41, Job gets what he asked for, a match with God Almighty, but it was not what he expected. God tells him to get his big boy pants on and answer God His questions. God begins with questions about Job's part in the creation of the universe, and moves to how does Job keep the world operating? The Almighty then asks Job how he directs the animal kingdom, and Job responds, "I will put my hand over my mouth!" The Lord was not done with Job. God speaks again out of a whirlwind and demands Job to answer Him. The Lord asks Job why he was willing to condemn God in order to justify himself? The Almighty asks, "Do you have an arm like God? Can your voice thunder like His? Can you dress yourself in majesty, excellency, glory, & beauty?"
Then God asks if Job can deal with fellow human beings like bring low a proud person or put a wicked man in his place. Of course the answer to all of these questions is no. We see that God's ways transcends ours, and most of the time, we don't have a clue. Yet, as C. Hassell Bullock says, "Yet the fact that God was speaking those words to Job involves the existential truth that man is very important to Him."
