Job 9:16-18

In these verses, Job did not realise that God cared about him. Job did not know about the events in Job 1:6-12 or Job 2:1-6. So Job did not know that Satan (the devil) caused Job’s troubles. And Job did not realise that God knew Job personally.

Jesus taught that God knows everything about us. God knows each person. And he cares about us all. See Matthew 10:29-30.

Here, Job could not even imagine that God might speak to him. Or, that God might help Job with his troubles. But God did these things in Job Chapter s 38-42.

Job thought in verse 17 that God might use a terrible storm to punish him. And there was a storm before God spoke in Job 38:1. But this storm was not a punishment for Job. Instead, God used the storm to teach Job about God’s great wisdom (Job 38:34-38).