Job 38:1-39:30

Now God speaks...out of the storm.  In 38:3, God tells Job to 'brace yourself like a man/gird up your loins/prepare yourself/dress yourself for action; I will question you/demand and you shall/must answer/make it known to/instruct/delcare to me.'  Can you hear the sternness? He means serious business.  There is no doubt that God is about to unleash some fury, frustration, anger in Job's direction.  This is a God of sugar coating.

God then starts asking Job is he knows where the light resides, if he knows where the oceans springs are, if morning obeys him, if he set the dimensions of the earth...if he knows the intimate details of creation. And he is sarcastic. 38:21, "Surely you know for you were already born! You have lived so many years!"

This caught me, 39:9 "Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?"  Whose manger did the animals stay by?  I know everything is directly to Jesus...but this struck me today.

God continues in this fashion...asking rhetorical questions about creation of Job and if he knws these things or can command them.