Can you pull in the laviathan with a fishhook?

I have to admit, that for just the sheer poetic value, Job 38-41 is just awesome. There are certain passages in the Bible that get my blood flowing and this is one of them. Day 71 in Solo starts with 38:4, but the first three verses to me are mind blowing:

"Then God answered Job out of the storm. He said:
'Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man,
I will question you,
and you shall answer me."

Are you kidding me! I think this may be one of the scariest moments in human history. I can't even fathom the sheer terror of the creator of the universe telling me out of a storm to "brace myself like a man." I imagine Job just slowly shriveling away to nothing over the next four chapters as God put him in his place.

Still, past the power of the passage, I wonder why God has to be so harsh. I mean after all, Job has already gone through a lot. Shouldn't God be more uplifting? Shouldn't God be piecing back together Job's fractured life? Shouldn't God care about all the pain and anguish he has brought on Job?

In Solo day 69 we get a taste of Job's frustration, and I can relate to it, to the feeling that God is not there and not listening. "I shout for help, God, and get nothing, no answer!" I hate that God can feel so distant some times. That nothing I do seems to illicit a response, or the emotional euphoria that I associate with closeness to God. But here is the power of chapter 38-41, God is clearly angry, but at what? At the insinuation that he is responding to Job with "a blank stare". God is not calling Job out because he is arrogant, or prideful, or consumed by some crazy power lust. God is righteously furious because Job is doubting that God cares for him, that God is present with him, and that God is concerned about his pain. And next comes the crazy part, despite the verbal beat down that Job gets, God actually respects that he expressed his frustration. He wants that. As we see on Day 72, God tells the men that have been berating Job that he is tired of them. Why? Because they haven't been honest with or about God the way Job has.

I am not sure how to sum all of this up, but there is something frightening and comforting about a God that wants to hear my frustration, and that will set me strait in it. About a God who becomes indignant at the insinuation that he doesn't care, even when that is my perception. About a God who has no qualms about reminding me how limited my perception is. About a God that values the honesty of my perception, even when it is warped, over a dishonest piety that paints our relationship in a sanctimonious box. That is a God I want to wrestle with and a God I am afraid to wrestle with at the same time.