Commentary for Job 36:22

Behold God deals loftily in His power Because His power is great, and one cannot be saved from before Him. Therefore...who is a teacher like Him? When He teaches a sinner to return to Him, He warns Him before the plague because He knows that he cannot beware of His plague, as He would warn Pharaoh concerning each plague (Ex. 8:17), “I shall let loose the beasts of the wilderness upon you etc.”; (ibid. 10:4), “I will bring locusts...tomorrow,” and so all of them. [In contrast,] when a mortal king wishes to wreak vengeance upon his enemies, he comes upon him suddenly, for, if he warns him, he will repent and be saved from him.

God seeks to strengthen man and to raise him through trial to a higher spiritual level, where the good things in the earthly world become equivalent in his eyes with the bad: prosperity with poverty, physical health with human pain, birth with bereavement. When this happens, he will have risen over the material matters to one that which is above the nature of the flesh: a godly matter in which those who truly walk with Him are tested.