A friend, Don Williams posted a scripture on Facebook recently and I began to read it over and over with more awe each time - especially since I have felt just a little of Job's frustrations in my own experiences lately.  I will share excerpts here in order to stay with the focus of this writing.  The passage is a response from God to Job after his world had been pulled out from under him and everything he had known was shaken and destroyed.  He had lost family, friends, and his own health, yet he did not curse God as he walked through these valleys of the shadow of death in his life.  It certainly speaks volumes of the faith in God he carried and lived.  Oh to respond to God in the way Job did in our own circumstances - even when his best friends (as we and our own friends are certainly capable today) suggested that he was in error.

Here is God's response to Job after he had said in 31:35, "Let the Almighty answer me."

4-5.  "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?  Tell Me, if you have understanding, who set its measurements?"  "...who stretched the line on it?"  
6-7.  "On what were its bases sunk?  Or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
8-11. "Or who enclosed the sea with doors, when bursting forth, it went out from the womb; when I made a cloud its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and I placed boundaries on it and set a bolt and doors, and I said, 'Thus far you shall come but no farther; and here shall your proud waves stop?'"  
12-13 "Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?"  
16-18. "Have you entered into the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?  Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?  Have you understood the expanse of the earth?"

Pretty much puts things into perspective!