“Slay me though he might, I will wait for him,” he says in Job 13:15.

Job endures God’s silence through the first 37 chapters of the book. It’s important to remember that this was not mere silence amid the ordinary course of affairs—it happened during a period of tremendous pain and suffering in the life of Job, a time when he was in dire need of God. http://catholicexchange.com/when-god-is-silent