God tells Job to "get a pair"

At biblestudy we have gotten to Luke chapter 11. You may wonder how this led us to God telling Job to "get a pair," I will explain. We ended spending a lot of time talking about the following verses:

30 As Jonah was a sign for those people who lived in Nineveh, the Son of Man will be a sign for the people of this time. ³¹ On the Judgment Day the Queen of the South will stand up with the people who live now. She will show they are guilty, because she came from far away to listen to Solomon's wise teaching. And I tell you that someone greater than Solomon is here.

This led us to read the old testament to figure out what Jesus meant by this. The stories of Jonah and the Queen of Sheeba are very different, but at their heart they are both about gentiles recognizing the God of Israel as God. So, here, Jesus prophesies that he will finally break down the barriers and all gentiles will be able to see and recognize God.

He continues after this to berate the pharisees and the teachers of the law, which got us going on just how good he is at ripping on people. I mean, it was brutal. He basically held them personally responsible for all the deaths of all the prophets in the old testement.

Again refering to the old testament, we read many sections where God is rather blunt with people for being disobientiant or for questioning his authority.

We ended up reading from the book of Job where God rips Job a new one for questioning him. Chapter 38 starts like this:

¹Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
²"Who is this that darkens counsel
By words without knowledge?
³"Now gird up your loins like a man,
And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!
⁴"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?

It is refreshing to see God's infinite grace and yet not a pushover.