...What we see in these two incidents is that God seems relatively unconcerned with giving specific answers to the anguished questions of Habakkuk and Job. He answers them, but not point for point. This suggests that all our questions about God's wisdom and justice and love may not be all that important to God in the end - or at least not as important as other things. This doesn't mean we can't ask them. In Christ, we have the freedom to speak what's on our hearts and minds. God isn't going to cast us from his presence because we ask him some tough questions. It just means that we shouldn't take our questions too seriously, because apparently God doesn't take them too seriously.
It may shock us to hear it put that way. We think pretty highly of ourselves an dour questions. We think it's our right to ask such questions and to demand such answers, even from God. But God does not seem to share this view. In the Bible, whenever God is asked a question that throws into doubt his kindness or justice, he more or less refuses to answer.......As the Cross demonstrates, God takes us seriously. he takes our sin seriously. But he continues to show relative indifference to our questions. He does not answer them to our intellectual satisfaction, he refuses to submit himself to our interrogations.
That's because the really important question in the Bible is not any question we ask of God but the question he asks of us. And though it is appropriate to ponder any number of questions...our questions must always take a backseat....
- From Mark Galli's book - God Wins: Heaven, Hell, and Why the Good News is Better than Love Wins
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