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fter spending the end of the last chapter reviewing what his
friends had said to him, Job delves quickly into the depths of God's infinite
wisdom. First, he uses a few mining
terms evidently to infer that our God is capable of hiding the greatest of
treasures very deep and out of sight.
Not just precious metals, but precious truths also (Deuteronomy
29:29). As such, it is the omniscience
of God that is on display in Job 28. He
sees all, knows all and can therefore do anything at all.
Now, in the midst of Job's commentary on the wonders of God,
he asks a very important and sincere question: "Where can wisdom be
found?" (Job 28:12 & 20). He
knew that experience alone would be an insufficient teacher. His friends had
made some very wrong deductions and had come to some grossly false conclusions
by following empirical and theoretical education exclusively. Job realized that
full wisdom is not available for us as long as we remain trapped within our
closed system of natural existence.
That is not to say that wisdom isn't accessible at all.
Though it can't be mined, bought, taught or priced... it is as near as God is
(Job 28:23), and that because He is omniscient (as well as omnipresent,
omnipotent and infinite – see Job 28:24 and following). But what is the key
that opens the floodgates? In a phrase, it is humility and obedience. These are the preconditions that God requires
in order to free Him up to impart the wisdom that we so need and desire (Job
28:28).
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