In Job, chapter forty, verse two, God once again challenged Job to prove his contention that God was improperly governing the world. Suppose Job could not comprehend the workings of God’s creation nor understand why things happen as they do. How did he think he could question God about His administration of the affairs of humankind or even about the suffering God allowed him to experience?
God was showing His suffering servant that He had created the world in wisdom and governed it with wisdom and justice. Job’s misfortune did not mean that God had abandoned His love for His faithful servant. The suffering of the righteous does not call into question the goodness of God. Their affliction is under the will of God, allowed for His wise, yet often unknown, purpose. Adverse circumstances should not destroy our faith in God’s love for us. He allows them for our highest good, as in Romans eight, verse twenty-eight.
Shall a human that contendeth with the Almighty instruct Him? Is a person capable of it? They ought to take it upon themselves to dispute with God, to object or reply to Him; that brings a charge against Him, enters the debate, and litigates a point with Him, which Job wanted to do. But could Job or any other instruct Him, who is the God of knowledge, the all-wise, and only wise God; who gives man wisdom, and teaches him knowledge? What folly is it to pretend to instruct Him! Or can such a one be “instructed?” No, the person ought to be an instructor, not one instructed; a teacher, and not one taught. The person should be above all instruction from God or man that will dispute with the Almighty.
Does it become a son or a servant to strive against a parent or a master who corrects him?
A person that reproveth God let they answer it. An individual who reproves God for His words, works, or ways, finding fault with either of them, ought to have an answer to the question. Or to any or all of those in the preceding chapters, and not be silent as Job now was.