פירוש על איוב 9:5

He Who moved mountains He moved them away when He overturned Sodom.

Job rejects Bildad's contention that it would be a wrong on God's part to have handed individual providence over to the mandate of Nature. He argues that this places too much importance on the fate of just one individual and ignores the interests of the universe as a whole. No component of the universe is of any more consequence than any other; cataclysms are natural events. What we call natural disasters are not an expression of Divine wrath: they are not 'acts of God'. They are simply unavoidable random consequences of the nature of the physical world whose occurrence is vital for the regeneration and continued existence of the universe as a whole. ¹The interpretation Malbim puts on Job's words here is similar to that Maimonides gave to Aristotle's ideas (Guide III,17):
Aristotle sees no difference between the falling or a stone and the death of the good and noble people in the ship; nor does he distinguish between the destruction of a multitude of ants caused by an ox depositing on them his excrement and the death of worshippers killed by the fall of the house when its foundations give way…In short, the opinion of Aristotle is this: Everything is the result of management which is constant.

and they knew not until He turned them over.