Isaiah 55:6-9
God's Thoughts Are Not Man's Thoughts
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Job 42:1-7
Job Comments to God
1 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”
7 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
Our Wisdom and God's Wisdom
16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
What did Job learn from all his questions to God?...I do not think God minds questions or the questions Job had for Him...And Job had many questions for God...Job had spoken and had obscured God's plans with not the proper knowledge of God's control and His counsel...Job did not clear up any of his friend's questions...Job had darkened God's Words without sufficient knowledge to help his friends...And Job's friends had not done as good as job as Job in understanding and explaining what God does and can do in our lives and the universe...
But God could have given Job some kind of answers to what he had ask Him...But God did not answer one of the questions that Job had asked...Instead God asked many questions of Job, when He came out of the storm...I do not know if it is best to try to fill God type questions with our own understandings...Our understanding is limited...Where God has created things and done things we cannot understand, it seems better to trust in God as best we can and to just call on Him and pray because we know He is near...There are many things in this universe that are too wonderful for us to even know and to understand...There are certain things that we just do not know...So maybe it is best to just pray to God, when we do not understand -even when it is about our pain and sufferings (as Job had)...We do not know God's thoughts or God's Ways...I think Job learned that our comfort is the Presence of God and knowing that He knows what He is in control and that He is near, and Job found these things out..