For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

“For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor?”
“Or who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?”

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

The quotation Paul uses mashes an answer to Job with Isaiah 40.  The implications would seem to be that God’s answer to Job somehow meshes with the redemption of Israel from exile.  Job would be a picture, from Solomon’s perspecive, of the future of Israel.

The problem with this is that Israel was unrighteous, unlike Job.

But when Solomon was at his height, and before his fall, he would have known that Deuteronomy 30 promised a fall into exile, and he himself acknowledged it in his prayer for the Temple.  Also there were men like Daniel who had to go through the experience even though they did not personally deserve it.