Finally, in Chapter 38-39, God appears and speaks to Job. He states that Job is complaining and speaking with "words without knowledge". Then instead of answering Job's questions about suffering and justice, God launched into a series of rhetorical questions regarding the creation, about the earth, the sea, the animals (goats, ox, donkey, ostrich, horse, hawk eagle).... inanimate or animate - all testify to God's sovereignty and love and care for His creation.
Chapter 40 started with Job 's brief reply to God that he had no answer for God's rhetorical questions, and he was "unworthy". God then started the second part of his speech, stating the vast difference between God and men - because Job would not be able to discredit god's justice and would not be able to justify himself. "Do you have arms like God's, and can your voice thunder like his?" He simply isn't God!
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