Commentaire sur Job 40:7

Accepting Job’s point, God now turns to the question of the prosperity of the wicked. The gist of His reply is that the wicked are to mankind as the predators are to the animal kingdom. That just as God has provided means for the weaker and smaller animals to survive and prosper despite being hunted down by the predators, so has He endowed mankind with the intelligence and the social, judicial and civil attributes needed to deal with all the dangers surrounding him including those that come from the wicked members of his own species.