This passage pushes back on our tendency to assume or presume that we know God's intentions, we know why things are the way they are, or how they will unfold. We don't know from one moment to the next what is coming our way, and we have no understanding of why God allows what He does. These verses call to the root of our pride and cull it out - and help us to put God in His rightful place, and us in our place, submitted to the sovereignty and knowledge of God.