Job 38 for Kids

For a long time Job had questions for God. Why is this so hard? Why did all this happen to me?

And then God answered. He spoke to Job right out of the middle of a storm.

But God did not start by explaining everything. He started with a question of His own — a gentle, wonderful one.

“Where were you, Job, when I made the world? When I marked off how big it would be? When the morning stars sang together and everyone shouted for joy?”

God kept going. “Have you ever told the morning to come? Have you walked on the floor of the deep sea? Do you know where the snow is kept, or where the light lives? Can you tie the stars together, or call the rain to fall on an empty desert where no one even lives?”

God was not being mean. He was showing Job something good: I am so big. I made all of this. I have been taking care of every star and every storm since before you were born.

And if God is big enough to do all that, then He is big enough to hold Job's hardest day too. Job did not have all the answers. But Job had something better — he had God.