Job 38:4~41 2014-09-12 08:10:31

 

4. "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.         5. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line           across it?

On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone- while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'? "Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.

"Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death ? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. "What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?

"Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth? "Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?

Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind ? Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? "Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

하나님의 지혜를 우리 인간이 알 수 있고 측량할 수 있겠느냐고 하나님께서 말씀하신다. 내 상식으로 이해가 안된다고 부저하면 되겠느냐? 지금 인간의 과학이 발달해서 땅의 넓이를 측량할 수 있게 되었다고 해서 하나님께 감히 도전할 수 있겠느냐? 과학이 점점 더 발달하면 인간이 하나님처럼 될 수 있을까? 우주의 비밀을 완전히 하나님처럼 다 알고 풀 수 있을까? 내가 잘못이 없다고 하나님께 항변할 수 있을까? 억울하다고 하나님께 말할 수 있을까? 나로서는 옳은 일을 했다고 생각하지만 하나님 보시기에는 그렇지 않을 수도 있고(모세의 애굽인을 쳐 죽인 사건처럼) 또다른 하나님의 계획이 있을 수도 있다는 것을 이해해야 한다. 내 뜻대로 되는 것이 꼭 하나님의 뜻은 아닌 경우도 많이 있다.