God for an answer: Why do the righteous suffer? Both of these approaches misunderstand the book rather badly. They have this in common: they assume that everything that takes place in God’s universe ought to be explained to us. They assume that God owes us an explanation, that there cannot possibly be any good reason for God not to tell us everything we want to know immediately. They assume that God Almighty should be more interested in giving us explanations than in being worshiped and trusted.