of our existence: How can we describe God? By what means shall we come to a greater understanding of YHWH? The prophet’s challenging sarcasm forces us to realize that the ways we describe God and the false deities that we array against him indicate our minuscule comprehension of his character. This verse’s rebuke of our lives moves in two divergent directions. First, the questions criticize the way we reduce God by making him el instead of Elohim. (These negative reductions will be considered more