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The third—and, ultimately, decisive—level of poetry in the book is manifested when the LORD addresses Job out of the whirlwind.
Here, too, the Job poet’s keen interest in nature is evident, but in an altogether spectacular way that, one might say, trumps Job in the game of vision.
The poet, having given Job such vividly powerful language for the articulation of his outrage and his anguish, now fashions still greater poetry for God.
The wide-ranging panorama of creation in the Voice from the Whirlwind shows a sublimity of expression, a plasticity of description, an ability to evoke the complex and dynamic interplay of beauty and violence in the natural world, and even an originality of metaphoric inventiveness that surpasses all the poetry, great as it is, that Job has spoken.
Many readers over the centuries have felt that God’s speech to Job is no real answer to the problem of undeserved suffering, and some have complained that it amounts to a kind of cosmic bullying of puny man by an overpowering deity.
One must concede that it is not exactly an answer to the problem because for those who believe that life should not be arbitrary there can be no real answer concerning the good person who loses a child (not to speak of ten children) or the blameless dear one who dies in an accident or is stricken with a terrible wasting disease.
But God’s thundering challenge to Job is not bullying.
Rather, it rousingly introduces a comprehensive overview of the nature of reality that exposes the limits of Job’s human perspective, anchored as it is in the restricted compass of human knowledge and the inevitable egoism of suffering.
The vehicle of that overview is an order of poetry created to match the grandeur—or perhaps the omniscience—of God.
The visionary experience that this poetry enables for Job is of a vast creation shot through with unfathomable paradoxes, such as the conjoining of the nurturing instinct with cruelty, where in place of the sufferer’s longing for absolute darkness the morning stars sing together and there is a rhythmic interplay between light and darkness.
Source: Alter, Robert. The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary: Three-Volume Set (pp. 5889-5890). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
I thought that was really cool how, even through the levels and styles of poetry and dramatic-descriptive vision, the Holy Spirit working with the writer of Job can let us pour out our complaint, and then when we've exhausted our ability to speak, He shows us something wider and more mysterious than we knew to look for, lifting our eyes off ourselves to see the Creator's vision of the whole creation.
Hope this encourages you today.
