Him VS. them

I feel it means that they are looking at this storm as if g-d is doing his worst. If you read the sentence before it says ‘” their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His.” I feel this is the more important then their eyes were waking g-d because throw the book we get the slight references to Jody when he keeps saying I g-d all the time. Trough the book g-d is compared to man but in the hurricane he is compared to this powerful storm that is putting him VS. them. If feel it shows the false hood through the book of man being g-d but here is were we see the true g-d. This comes at a time when Janie has found what she has wanted all her life love and a man which she tern in to her form of g-d but she has not found g-d.