Thanks for your post.
As you say..we must or should always be led by The Holy Spirit. Therefore if we have the 'hearing ear' that God tells us to have...then anything we ask of Him has been first conveyed to us by His Holy Teacher.
But that being said. I too hear a preach declaring that we are to command God. ( He never mentioned the 'hearing ear'.)
Not wanting to 'be a Mike' here, but I have actually never ever had the 'inner witness' that we are being told in this scripture to command God.
I believe it should all be a question! Just as we saw it was in Job.
Your quote with my colouring :- "Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask Me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye Me!? " Isaiah 45:10-11
I personally have always believed it to be a exclamation question. As in Job
38 "Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or Who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or Who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?"....etc etc...
I do not believe anything had changed between the times of Job and the times of Isaiah!!