Yahweh as the Ultimate Abuser of Power?

In Job 40, Yahweh continues to berate Job for daring to claim that he doesn't deserve all the bad things that have happened to him.  After his sarcastic "Who's your Daddy?' speech in Job 38-39, Yahweh continues to bully Job.  His argument is that he must be fair because he is powerful.  This is an extremely problematic argument from a modern standpoint inasmuch as it is a might-makes-right argument.  It dovetails with the philosophical thread woven tightly throughout Genesis, that God loves the lucky and hates the unlucky.  Luck and even amoral opportunism are rewarded (cf Jacob), the unlucky are deemed deservedly damned by Yahweh. 

 ⁸ "Would you dare to claim that I am not being fair?
      Would you judge me in order to make yourself seem right?
 ⁹ Is your arm as powerful as mine is?
      Can your voice thunder as mine does? 
 ...
¹² Look at proud people and bring them down.
      Crush those who are evil right where they are.
 ¹³ Bury their bodies in the dust together.
      Cover their faces in the grave.
 ¹⁴ Then I myself will admit to you
      that your own right hand can save you.

Yahweh really gets into his description of the hippo in Job 40:15-24.  Lord love a hippo!  Apparently Yahweh didn't foresee man's development of firearms and other ways to bring the great hippo down.

 ²⁴ Can anyone capture it by its eyes?
      Can anyone trap it and poke a hole through its nose?  

Likewise the "leviathan", which sounds like an enormous whale or shark or Loch Ness Monster type of creature.  It is described as having legs, so perhaps it is a now-extinct plesiosaur, although the legs mentioned may just as well be the flippers of a great whale or shark.

Job 41 is actually pretty funny, the way Yahweh rants on and on about how Job can't hook the leviathan, can't put it on a leash for his young women - lol.  Then he gets mean again.  Power as the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong.

 ⁹ No one can possibly control the leviathan.
      Just looking at it will terrify you.
 ¹⁰ No one dares to wake it up.
      So who can possibly stand up to me?
 ¹¹ Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
      Everything on earth belongs to me. 

I could stomach this if it were some abstraction of Death and Misfortune or Blind Fate, which aren't fair, generally, and which can be hideous bullies.   But from what people are trying to pass of as a beneficent deity?  A fair deity?  Nope, not buying that. 

To top it all off, at the end of Job, in chapter 42 (42!), poor Job apologizes in abject misery and then Yahweh proceeds to tell him and his friends that Job was right all along about him, (that Yahweh is fickle and unfair)!

Job:  ⁶ So I hate myself.
      I'm really sorry for what I said about you.
      That's why I'm sitting in dust and ashes."

Yahweh chews out the friends, tells them they were wrong, and that they should bring a whole load of livestock to get slaughtered  (presumably to atone for their arrogance) but that he will forgive that they were wrong about Him, and Job was right.  After Job prays for his friends, Yahweh makes him *twice* as successful as he was before with more livestock, more children, and his family and community rally around him now that he is no longer seemingly cursed and sick.


I wonder what Job thought after all this.  Yahweh said that he was right about Him after all, that He is unfair.  The friends were wrong that misfortune is necessarily a sign of being damned by Yahweh for sin.  That's progress I guess.  So, gather thee rosebuds while ye may?