Job speaks in exalted terms about the being of God. All of the things chosen to illustrate God’s power are far beyond human ability, so that a comparison is made between God and man.
Just as God can touch and disturb our external world, so he can touch our internal worlds, and they collapse in a moment. Speaking of the wicked, Asaph says, ‘How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors’ (Psalm 73:19). They never realised how vulnerable they were, or how easily God could take away their peace. The familiar landscape of their inner world has shifted, and the things they thought were stable and secure are no longer in place. Their righteousness dissolves like the early morning mist; their hope is an illusion; their eternal future is swept away.
When we observe a workman who has much greater skill than we possess, we are filled with admiration, but when we see work done on a scale which we know will always be beyond our powers, it awakens a sense of awe in us which is on an entirely different scale.