I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Job 38-42.

When Elihu finishes speaking, God responds to Job’s challenge.  The questions which God asked of Job reveal how little we humans truly know about the universe, they reveal that we lack the knowledge to understand the hows and whys of what God does.  Even though modern science has answered many of the questions posed here, those answers reveal that there is even more to know.    Further some of the questions show us that even when we think we know the answer, we are really only guessing.  We weren’t there, we did not see it happen.  

The passage further points out that not only don’t we have the knowledge to understand why God does what He does, we lack the power to genuinely understand what it would mean if God did as we thought that He should.  We lack the power to imagine what the unintended consequences would be if God acted as we think that He ought.  We recognize that there are beasts which we cannot tame and use as beasts of burden.  If we lack the power to do that, how could we possibly think we should exercise the power of God in other ways?