Magnificent Six Questions

Noticed in all of Job’s problems and questions, G-d does not answerer a one of them. If He had we would have made a doctrine out of it. G-d proceeds to ask Job many puzzling questions instead, to convince him of his ignorance, and so to shame him for his folly in prescribing to Him. If we will but try ourselves with such interrogatories as these, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not.
Job is here challenged to give an account of six things:--
I. Of the springs of the morning, the day-spring from on high, 38:12-15.
2. Of the springs of the sea, 38:16. G-d's way in the government of the world is said to be in the sea, and in the great waters Ps. 77:19, intimating that it is hidden from us and not to be pried into by us.
3. Of the gates of death, 38:16. Man knows not his time. Let us make it sure that the gates of heaven shall be opened to us on the other side death, and then we need not fear the opening of the gates of death, though it is a way we are to go but once.
4. Of the breadth of the earth, 38:18. The divine perfection is longer than the earth and broader than the sea; it is therefore presumption for us, who perceive not the breadth of the earth, to dive into the depth of G-d's counsels.
5. Of the place and way of light and darkness, 38:19. Light is not to be located in a certain place or situation. Neither does it simply appear, or disappear, instantaneously. Light is traveling! It dwells in a ‘way’, always on the way to someplace else. Though usually traveling in waves, sometimes it seems to move as a stream of particles, but it is always moving. When light stops traveling, there is darkness. Thus, darkness is static; staying in place; but light is dynamic, dwelling in a way.
G-d glories in it that He forms the light and creates the darkness; and if we must take those as we find them, take those as they come, and quarrel with neither, but make the best of both, then we must, in like manner, accommodate ourselves to the peace and the evil which G-d likewise created. Isa. 45:7.
If we would, in like manner, reckon upon changes in our outward condition, we should neither in the brightest noon expect perpetual day nor in the darkest midnight despair of the return of the morning; G-d has set the one over against the other, like the day and night; and so must we, Ecc. 7:14.
6. Of the treasures of the snow and hail, 38:22-23. The direct words of G-d, in His final message to Job, are especially interesting, though still mysterious, for we know only a little about the treasures of the snow and the treasures of the hail. To serve the purposes of Providence, in G-d's fighting for His people and against His and their enemies, against the time of trouble, the day of battle and war, when G-d will either contend with the world in general (as in the deluge, when the windows of heaven were opened, and the waters fetched out of these treasures to drown a wicked world, that waged war with Heaven) or with some particular persons or parties, as when G-d out of these treasures fetched great hail-stones wherewith to fight against the Canaanites, in Joshua 10:11.
Treasures of the hail - It is easier to account for the formation of snow than of hail. Hail, however, is generally supposed to be drops of rain frozen in their passage through cold regions of the air; and the hail is always in proportion to the size of the raindrop from which it was formed. But this meteor does not appear to be formed from a single drop of water, as it is found to be composed of many small spherules frozen together, the centre sometimes soft like snow, and at other times formed of a hard nucleus, which in some cases has been of a brown colour, capable of ignition and explosion. In the description given of snow, 37:6, it has been stated that both snow and hail owe their formation to electricity; the hail being formed in the higher regions of the air, where the cold is intense, and the electric matter abundant. By this agency it is supposed that a great number of aqueous particles are brought together and frozen, and in their descent collect other particles, so that the density of the substance of the hailstone grows less and less from the centre, this being formed first in the higher regions, and the surface being collected in the lower. This theory is not in all cases supported by fact, as in some instances the centre has been found soft and snow-like, when the surface has been hard.
Hail is the only meteor of this kind, from which no apparent good is derived. Rain and dew refresh and give life to the whole vegetable world; frost, by expanding the water contained in the earth, pulverizes and renders the soil fertile; snow covers and defends vegetables from being destroyed by too severe a frost; but hail does none of these. It not only does no good, but often much harm-always some. It has a chilling, blasting effect in spring and summer, and cuts the tender plants so as to injure or totally destroy them. In short, the treasures of hail are not well known; and its use in the creation has not yet been ascertained. But frost is G-d's universal plough, by which He cultivates the whole earth.
See what folly it is to strive against G-d, who is thus prepared for battle and war, and how much it is our interest to make our peace with Him and to keep ourselves in His love. G-d can fight as effectually with snow and hail, if He pleases, as with thunder and lightning or the sword of an angel!
Do we really take time to enjoy His creation? To examine it? To sit in amazement of it? In all that we think we know we find out we know nothing at all.