And the Lord Answered Job from the Whirlwind. While the Almighty speaks over the next four chapters, He provides a response to the themes Job has been lamenting over. It is grand poetry that express the majesty of the ineffable.
The Lord queries, Who is this who, in words without wisdom, darkens counsel? He could be addressing Job or all who have appeared in this Book, including: Job, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar. The Almighty continues, Gird up Thy Lions like a man and ready yourself for My Word, so you can inform me.
Where were you when I founded the Earth? The Lord has existed for an infinite period, while we are fortunate if we near the century mark. Each of us is like a grain of sand in the Cosmic order. Since we have an infinitesimal fraction of His perspective, Job is not fit to question God nor to claim to be as righteous as Him.
Tell me, if you have understanding, Who fixed the World's measures. The Lord is asking, who, like an Architect and Engineer, designed and constructed this World, with the proper angles and adjustments.
At the Dawn of Creation, who moved the Angelic Beings in the Heavens to rejoice and sing together? This references a celebration of celestial beings.
Who hedged the sea with doors and releases waters as if they break forth from a womb? Have you been able to explore the majesty of the seas and the depths? When there is a torrent of rain; who devises how it runs off? It is folly to think there is no Master behind this.
The Lord continues and expresses: Have you brought Light to the void, ushering in the Spring of Day, to shake out the filters of wicked darkness?
Have you an understanding of the gates of death? What do you really know about the mysteries of this earth, those which are all around you? And when a discovery is made, does it not open door to new unknowns?
You surely have answers to all this; for weren’t you around when I brought forth this World through the Introduction of my Word. Since you were around, please offer advice. The number of Your days is great – just as mine are.
The Almighty continues: Have you controlled the storehouses of power – of rains, snow and hail, which I keep in reserve for times of strife? Do you send the Lightening Bolts on Their Way?
So tell me, how does one send the wind where it goes? How does that East Wind scatter and whip all over the Earth? Declare it if you Know— How is it that you may embrace the Light; and take it with you; to avoid the darkness. God is stressing that He created the rhythm of light and darkness.
And who decides that in uninhabitable areas, like jungles and desserts, that it rains to feed the earth? And from whose Womb does Ice Come Forth?
Then the Lord points to Outer Space – Can you show us each of the Constellations in their proper season. Could you have tied together the Band of Pleiades. Or create Orion the Hunter. Could you lead, bring forth, create, the Great Bear & Her Cubs (Arcturus)?
And Who hath put wisdom in the mind, or understanding to the Heart.
Who made it so the Lion hunts for it’s prey? I set who is the leader of the food chain? Who made it so the predators lie in wait for their prey? And who provides a means for the Raven to get his Food? This is likely a source of Jesus’s lesson in Matthew 6:26 of the Lord providing for all, emphasizing that man is given what he needs by God’s care.