How, therefore, does the Truth himself respond to suffering Job? In his first interrogation, Yahweh sounds forth from the midst of a whirlwind, demanding, "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now gird up your loins like a man, and I will ask you, and you instruct Me!" (38:2-3). In question after question, God declares the mystery of his divine power as Creator of heaven and earth.
Through wisdom and might, unsearchable and unknowable by man, God has created and sustains the material world and all that is in it. How does this, however, help answer the question of the suffering one? Is Job merely being instructed to keep his mouth shut and let the sovereign God be sovereign? Hardly. Yahweh roars forth example upon example of his divine power not merely to sew Job's lips shut with the strong thread of divine sovereignty, but to reveal that this almighty God-inscrutable in majesty, hidden in wisdom, beyond mortal comprehension-must be known in a far different kind of revelation. Job is not only humbled by the litany of God's creative power; more importantly, he is brought to the realization that God must reveal who he is to man in a radically different way. And such a way he demonstrates in the second divine speech.
When God speaks again, he tells Job, "Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him; and tread down the wicked where they stand. Hide them in the dust together; bind them in the hidden place. Then I will also confess to you, that your own right hand can save you," (40:12-14). He then directs Job to gaze upon two mysterious creatures called Behemoth and Leviathan. The exalted, intricate description of this pair of beasts evokes images of supernatural, otherworldly monsters: untamable, ferocious, menacing. Behemoth is called "the first of the ways of God," (40:19), a description equally attributable to the angelic host, one of whom is Satan. Leviathan is similarly painted with devilish hues.