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“Come on, Job, let’s see if you can lasso one of the galaxies, tie it up and
bring it together. Or let’s see if you can untie a constellation. Do you
control the course of the stars, the meteors, the comets and the planets? I
do those things, Job. You have challenged Me, Job. I am asking you some
questions.” Verse 34 and 35, “Can you direct a bolt of lightning?” You
see, these are just samples in the inanimate world. Job, you said you
would come with your mouth full of arguments. You would stand up as a
prince. You would present your case before Him. Well, here is your
opportunity. Speak up.
And then he begins to ask questions about living things. Let me show you
what they are. Chapter 38: 36 He starts with the brain of man.
“Who has put wisdom in the innermost being, who has given
understanding to the mind?”
Have you ever studied the brain? Amazing miracle of God. Verse 39-41.
“I provide food for the animals and the birds”. I believe the lions and the
ravens represent that. God provides food for all. How about chapter 39:1–
4, “When the mountain goats and the deer calve? Job, you’re not there
when that happens. I have to be there”. Some of those animals not only
don’t depend on you, Job, but look at verse 4,
“Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field; They
leave and do not return to them.”
“Those little animals can’t even depend on their parents. Some of them
wander off. Who takes care of them, Job?” Verse 5-12. “The wild donkey
and the wild ox. How about that, Job? They range free and untamed in the
wilderness. You not only can’t help them, but they wouldn’t let you if you
tried. They’re untamable. They will scorn all your attempts to domesticate
them. They are not going to serve you.” Verse 19 through 25, “What
about the war horse, Job?” This description of the war horse is one of the
most stirring pieces of poetry in the Scriptures.

Verse 26-30, “How about the hawk, Job? How about the eagle?” God has
been showing that He providentially takes care of His creatures. Chapter
39:14–15, “The ostriches’ wings flap joyously with the pinion and
plumage of love, for she abandons her eggs to the earth and warms
them in the dust, and she forgets that a foot may crush them, or that a
wild beast may trample them.”

An ostrich buries her eggs in the sand, and she is so dumb that if she gets
off her eggs, she will forget where she buried them. The eggs are left in
the sand and the warmth of the sun hatches the eggs. God is saying, “Job,

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