Job 38:1 says, Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,  Job was wanting an answer from God, and his friends really hadn't provided it.  Now, God Himself was answering Job from out of a whirlwind.  Though God could have spoken quietly to Job, I believe that He spoke this way so that all those around Job would know that He was the One speaking.  Verse two asks, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?  I believe that God was speaking first to Job, and then to God Job's friends.  When we are suffering in life, who are we to question God or attempt to give Him council.  We need to continue to live by faith.  Verse three says, Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.  I believe that we today might say that God told Job to man up.  God said to Job that He would demand of him.  God has every right to place a demand of obedience and faithfulness on His followers, and also a right to expect us to answer Him.  Verse four asks, Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.  God asked Job where he was when God created the earth.  God challenged Job to tell Him how the world was made if he knew.  People today who do not believe in God have theories about the formation, because they would never use Creation, of the world, but we as followers of Christ can never question that God created everything from nothing.  Verse five asks, Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?  God asked Job if God did not design the world, and the universe as well, then who did.  Even those who propose a cosmic accident as having been the origin of the world have to start with the existence of something and cannot explain the order of the universe.  In verse six God asks, Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;  I believe that God was asking Job who keeps the world suspended in space if God doesn't.  Even if we attempt to explain this as the law of nature, where does that law come from. Verse seven says, When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?  God was still asking Job where he was when God hung the stars in heaven and the angels rejoiced.  If Job, or anyone, should question God's sovereignty, then we should know more and be more powerful than He is.  Verse eight asks, Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?  God was the One Who divided the land and the seas, and God asked Job if God didn't do this, who did.  All these questions point back to the glory of God.  Verse nine says, When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingb and forit,   What makes the earth different from any other planet is its atmosphere, and God asked where this came from if not from Him.  Then, verse ten states,  And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,  God says that He set boundaries on the seas.  Verse eleven says, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?  This is a continuation of God's declaration that He controls the seas and limits their expanse.  If we are to question God, then we should be able to explain the way the universe works without Him.  Verse twelve asks, Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;  God asked Job if he had created day and night.  Once more, we cannot explain nor control the universe, but God knows all its mysteries and sustains it all by His power.  Verse thirteen says, That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?  God could indeed shake all the wicked out of the world, but He chooses to give them a way to redemption instead.  Verse fourteen says, It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. When verse fifteen states, And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.  I believe that God was saying that the fate of the wicked who will not turn to Him in repentance is already sealed.  No matter how strong they may think they are, their high regard for themselves will be broken.