Job 38:4-18 - by Don Neuendorf
"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand."
This is what is called a "rhetorical question." That is, it's a question to which we already know the answer. God isn't asking it in order to gain information for himself. He's asking it in order to gain information for US - to get an idea into OUR head, not his. Look at God's exam...
- Who marked off [the earth's] dimensions?
- On what were its footings set?
- Who shut up the sea...?
- Have you ever given orders to the morning?
- Have you journeyed to the springs of the seas?
- Have the gates of death been shown to you?
- Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Answers: You did; Nothing; You did; No; No; No; No.
But there's more than these facts behind the questions. What is the conclusion that God wants you to reach from all of this? It could be expressed this way...
I am not God. But...
I know who is.
I'll trust in him.