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Job 38:3
3 Gird up ['azar] now thy loins [chalats] like a man [geber]; for I will demand [sha'al] of thee, and answer [yada`] thou me. KJV-Interlinear
3 'Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! NASB
Inevitably, in everyone's life, come questions. And inevitably everyone looks heavenward and asks why, or why not, among a variety of other comments.
And here is Gods answer to you.
So gird yourself up, or in other words, build up your strength and wit, prepare yourself, get ready, for here come the questions, and simple ones at that, such that if you can answer them, then you should be able to answer just about any question that has ever been asked by anyone in all of human history.
And of course arrogance is the single biggest barrier and flaw of mankind, and that includes you and me. Whereby, we get all uppity in our life and begin to ask the how's and why's of life especially when things don't go the way we want or expect them to.
And then it will be your turn to answer all of the easy questions, first, before the hard questions of life are put to you. And of course anyone who has a brain can answer Gods simplest of questions, right??
That is exactly what God does. He begins with the simple questions, just to show that mankind cannot even answer them, let alone anything of greater substance in life.
If you can provide the number of heartbeats that will occur in your life, the number of hairs on your body throughout your life, then you would have a great start at answering the more complex questions of life.
For example, what will everyone in the world, do tomorrow? What will they think? What will they plot and plan? Who will have children and who will not? What circumstances will influence the children of several generations in the future? How many generations of humanity remain to come in our future?
You see, we cannot even predict the roll of the dice let alone the state of our economy over the next few days or years. Certainly we cannot fix problems with any degree of permanency.
