Job 42:1-6
Epilogue of Job
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.”
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to God
3 Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Job suffered greatly...And Job had questions for God while he suffered...Suffering can produce questions and makes us ask questions...Why do we suffer?...Why does God allow us to suffer?...We may have questions about life and the purpose of life as we suffer...
God did not give Job answer to the questions he had for Him...God’s response was not close to what Job was looking for as far as answers to his questions...Instead God ask Job many questions...We know very little how God thinks and what God’s ways are...We do not know how God would respond to a certain suffering situation, but Job did get to know how God would respond to His sufferings...
In Job’s case, we realize that he came to realize that God can be trusted even in our sufferings...Job said now after hearing God and His questions, he despised Himself...Even as Job felt the pain and the dread of his personal sufferings he would repent in dust and ashes...Job concluded that God was watching him and the entire world and universe and that he had seen God and knew that God was in control of the universe...Job learned more about the Sovereign Providence of God through his sufferings...Job learned that God is able to tell us great and unsearchable and unknowable things even through the questions that He asks...