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Chapter 28 continues Job's dissertation. Caught up in the emotion of his speech, he forgets his sores; he forgets his sorrows and begins to talk like a philosopher. He acknowledges that God's ways are not man's ways. That we are not to understand all that God does. He spoke of wealth, and the hazards of striving for it; of wisdom and the price we must pay for it.
Job lists some things that men know how to do. They know how to mine silver and how to refine gold. They know how to dig iron from the earth and to melt copper. They know how to put light into darkness. They know how to obtain food from the ground. They know where to fine precious stones. They know how to build roads and dam rivers and build tunnels. In spite of all this ability, they do not know where to find wisdom and understanding for it is not to be found among the living. Where then can we get it? Death and destruction speak of knowing something about it. God surly knows where it can be found and He says to mankind, "Look, to fear the Lord is true wisdom and to forsake evil is real understanding."
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