What do we really know?
26 “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars
and spreads his wings toward the south?
27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
and makes his nest on high?
28 On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
on the rocky crag and stronghold.
29 From there he spies out the prey;
his eyes behold it from far away.
30 His young ones suck up blood,
and where the slain are, there is he.”
In this section of the book of Job, God has finally broken his silence and is speaking directly to Job. Up to this point, Job and his three friends, as well as the fourth friend, Elihu, have you given wisdom to each other in a debate forum. Each has tried to explain jobs suffering. Each have failed. Elihu has come the closest of all of them, as he has focus their attention on the character of God. In the remaining chapters, Job will hear from God himself. Although God responds, he never does give an answer to Job in regard to his suffering. What he does do, is draw Jobes attention to his own majesty. Elihu attempted to do the same thing. But this time it is in a very words of God. In chapter 39, God simply shows Job his inadequacies. Although Job and his friends thought they were wise men, God simply ask them some very simple questions, that they had no answer for. The above, his example of one of those series of probing questions to reveal Job’s lack of deep knowledge. The questions that God ask Job in this series, are not that profound. God simply wants to know what makes the eagle and the hawk fly the way they do. The implication is that God is the one who does these things. Yet, Job is focused on his own suffering. He is not unlike us. The God’s answer to suffering, God’s answer to depression, God’s answer to mental struggles, is to focus on the majesty, the character, and the awesomeness of God. Whereas a Job and his friends focused on the things of the earth, they focus on the problem, God focused their eyes on Him. When Elijah was depressed, God focused his eyes on the character of God, as well. When the prophet Isaiah and Jeremiah where depressed, God focus their eyes on Him. The answer for our mental struggle, is the theology of God.
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