Harvester Podcast

In this episode, Brian Kenyon explores the profound themes of wisdom in the Bible, focusing on Job chapter twenty-eight. He discusses the nature of divine wisdom, its pursuit, and its significance in living a righteous life, emphasizing the importance of fearing the Lord and turning from evil.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and overview of Job's structure
01:20 Job's trials and dialogues with friends
03:45 Introduction to wisdom literature in the Bible
06:00 Wisdom as a gift from God and its biblical foundation
12:03 The ancient Near Eastern context of wisdom
15:52 Differences between biblical and pagan wisdom literature
20:09 The moral and spiritual dimensions of wisdom
24:45 Job 28 as a hymn to wisdom
25:00 Where can wisdom be found? The mining metaphor
29:17 The inaccessibility of wisdom to human effort
31:43 The divine origin of wisdom and the fear of the Lord
33:26 Job's character and the pursuit of wisdom
34:50 Practical applications of biblical wisdom

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Welcome to the Harvester Podcast.

We are happy that you have chosen to join
us for this bumper sode.

And if you're new to our podcast,

bumper sodes are episodes that come
between seasons.

And we just finished out a season on the
majoring in the minors,

lessons from the minor prophets,

twelve of those, actually 13 counting the
introduction.

And then our next season is going to be
minoring in the majors.

And we will just take selected studies out
of each of the major prophets

and make some application to us today.

but in between those seasons we have
several bumper-soweds,

and today we're going to look at and we're
studying lessons from the book of Job.

And today is bumper-sowed five.

And this will be Job's hymn to wisdom,

Job's Hymn to Wisdom in Job chapter
twenty-eight.

And it is a very strategic ~

hymn, if you will. when we think about the
book of Job,

the way it's organized, we have the first
two chapters,

~ God's dialogue with Satan and God giving
Satan permission to take away,

first of all, Job's possessions,

and then his family included, and then
secondly,

his health, only he did not touch his
life,

his you know, he did not was not given
permission to kill Job.

But in each of those tests, Job came out.

You know, naked came I from my mother's
womb,

naked shall I return thither. The Lord
gives,

and the Lord takes away, but blessed be
the name of the Lord after the first
trial,

and then after the second, I shouldn't say
the first series of trials,

and then after the second series of
trials,

this text tells us that in all this Job
did not sin with his lips.

And so Job came through those trials
pretty heavy.

And then in chapter three, he curses the
day he was born.

Which again is to to you know,

if if his day if his birthday never
existed on the calendar,

as the thought goes, then I would have
never gone through all this.

And so he cursed the day of his birth.

And then in chapter four begins a series
of dialogues between Job

and his three friends, Eliphaz,

Bildad, and Zophar, and and there's those
are in three rounds.

Eliphaz will speak, Job will answer.

~ Bildad will speak, Job will answer.

Zophar will speak, Job will answer,

and that goes for a second round,

and then the third round is just the first
two,

Eliphaz and Bildad, and Zophar does not
answer there,

but that ends in chapter twenty seven.

So chapter 28 serves as a great transition
between

the three rounds of dialogue before
chapter 28,

and then the three rounds of monologue
after chapter 28.

So in 29 through 31, you have Job's claim
of innocence.

And then 32 through 38, you have Elihu
speaks speeches,

and then you have God speaking.

And then, of course, you have the
conclusion of the book.

And so it's a very strategic place where
chapter 28 is.

Now, before we get into this ~ hymn of
wisdom,

let's just say a few things about wisdom
in general.

Now, we do have a group of books,

five books that we often call wisdom.

Books or wisdom literature, or sometimes
even the poetic books.

And I don't know if there's a better term
for that,

because you know, all the books have God's
wisdom in it,

although these five and the five we're
speaking of here are Job,

Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes,

and Song of Solomon. All of his writings
contain wisdom,

although maybe these five are more in that
that genre of literature.

And also we have learned, well,

I say

We've discovered maybe in the last hundred
years,

maybe more, I don't know when,

but you'll see this in the newer
translations that there is poetry,

books of poetry. I mean, ~ most of the
prophets are poetic if you look at them,

and the newer translations put these out
in like poetic verses rather than prose.

~ the old old King James used to just have
everything prose.

But now even new versions of the Old King
James are starting to put it

in verse as if it's poetry, which it is.

And of course, we know that Hebrew poetry
basically is ~ based

on parallelism and not on rhyming like

we have in in the English language.

And so ~ poetic books kinda

is misleading because most of the Old
Testament is written poetically.

Which is pretty awesome about the
inspiration of God,

but we'll say that for another another ~
episode.

All right, but just to introduce these
wisdom books and thus wisdom in general,

~ wisdom was regarded as a gift of God to
the ancient world,

which of course it is. First Kings three
twenty eight,

and this has to do with Solomon,

but in all Israel heard of the judgment
which the king had rendered,

and they feared the king.

For they saw that the wisdom of God was in
him to administer justice.

And then also in first Kings four twenty
nine,

and God gave Solomon wisdom and
exceedingly great understanding,

and largeness of heart like the sand on
the seashore.

And so, and of course we notice from the
beginning verses of first Kings three that

yes, God gave Solomon wisdom.

And so wisdom is a gift of God.

Now the wisdom books, as a as a general,

you know, Job through ~ Song of Solomon,

they do have five points of correspondence
with the Pentateuch or the Torah.

And of course the Pentateuch is the basis
of the law of Moses,

the basis of the law of Moses.

didn't include everything in the law of
Moses,

but it's definitely the basis.

And of course the other things are
detailed later on in the Old Testament.

But ~ you know, like the wisdom books,

Job through Song of Solomon, like the
Pentateuch,

begin with the fear of the Lord.

They begin with the fear of the Lord.

For example, Deuteronomy four,

six through eight, therefore be careful to
observe them,

that is the commandments, for this is your
wisdom and your understanding

in the sight of the people who will bear
all these statutes,

and say surely, this great nation is a
wise and understanding people.

For what great nation is there that has
that has God so near to it as

the Lord our God is to us, for whatever
reason we may call upon him?

And what great nation is there that has
such statutes and righteous judgments

as are in all this law which I set before
you this day?

And so again the Pentateuch emphasizes the
fear of the Lord.

And that's how our relationship with God
begins and is sustained through fear

of the Lord. Also, the wisdom books,

Job through Song of Solomon, they
translate the covenant stipulations into

instructions and really easy to remember
statements which regulate contact conduct

in different areas of life. And when you
think about the the wide range of
teaching.

In those wisdom books from Job to Song of
Solomon,

they talk about relationships between
family members,

between friends, between spouses,

they talk about bad relationships,

~ gang members, adulterous women,

these kind of thing. They talk about,

you know, borrowing money,

they talk about all kinds of things that
translate,

if you will, or at least

Make make a you know, they they lead into
what the law says of the old testament,

into how do you live that out in daily
living.

They also, the wisdom books from Job to
Song of Solomon

are concerned with explaining the covenant
~ penalties which are set forth

in the Pentateuch. In other words,

and of course a couple things I always
think of as

div Deuteronomy chapter twenty-eight.

You have all those conditional blessings.

If you do this, this, this, and that,

then these things, blessings will follow
you.

But then most of the book is conditional
curses.

If you don't do what God says,

if you don't do this, this, and that,

then these curses will fall upon you.

And so what that tells us is that we need
to keep the covenant.

The Old Testament Israelite needs to keep
that covenant.

We also need to keep our covenant,

but ours is with Christ, not with the old
law.

But to keep that covenant or we will have
the consequences.

And so the wisdom books, Job through Song
of Solomon,

remind us of those consequences,

and they tell us, encourage us,

and show us practically how we can keep
those.

And then ~ the wisdom books from Job to
Song of Solomon,

they are concerned, like the Pentateuch,

about the transmission of these precepts
from generation

to generation to generation.

And particularly I looked at the book of
Proverbs one time.

In fact, I did a lesson on it one time.

I was assigned a lesson what parents and
grandparents should teach their children.

And I kind of always wanted to do this.

~ and so this gave me a reason to do that,

but I kept seeing the statement in the
book of Proverbs,

my son or my children. And then he'd give
some instruction.

And so for that lesson, I just,

you know, I copied and pasted.

The whole book of Proverbs on eight and a
half by eleven sheets of paper where

I could underline stuff, highlight stuff,

draw arrows here, circle stuff,

put side references over here and there
without messing up my Bible too bad.

And so I highlighted all the areas where
Proverbs begins a section

by my son or my children.

And then I started noting the content of
all that teaching.

And then I found, and I I've s made my
lesson based upon that,

but one of the most common things that he
talks about when he says,

My son or my children, he's talking about
a man's relationship with

women. And so he's talking about
relationships with the opposite sex.

How to make a good one and the ones,

the bad ones to avoid. And I thought that
was very interesting.

And I thought to myself, well,

if God thought

Children should know that more than any
other subject matter in

the book of Proverbs. Shouldn't we be
teaching our children?

Yes, it is a parent's responsibility,

and the church should encourage the
parents,

but when the parents are not Christians or
they don't see the value

or they're too afraid, there are some
resources with those parents permission
that

we can use to help teach those children
those things.

Of course, we want those children to be
age appropriate as well.

But the book of the wisdom books,

that is, from Job to Song of Solomon,

they are concerned about teaching future
generations,

the next generation, the precepts and laws
of God.

And then finally, the wisdom books from
Job to Song of Solomon,

along with the Pentateuch, emphasize
wholehearted obedience to God.

You know, partial obedience is
disobedience,

and we see that throughout.

But even the book of Proverbs,

or where the wisdom books, I just won't
limit it to the book Proverbs,

but the wisdom books Job to Song of
Solomon teach us that,

that wholehearted obedience is required.

There's no substitute for that.

And so that those are the wisdom books
from Job to Song of Solomon.

They, you know, kind of touch base with
the heart of the Pentateuch or

the heart of the old law contained in the
Pentateuch.

Alright, now next let's notice a
background of biblical wisdom before

we get into Job's hymn of wisdom.

Now in the ancient Near East, daily life
was regulated by four classes of men.

There were princes, there were priests,

there were prophets, and there were wise
men.

And these came from all parts of the
world.

Now we notice Job Eliphaz was a Timanite,

he came from Timah. Bildad a Shuhite came
from Shuah,

and Zophar.

Came from another place. But notice in
Esther chapter one verse thirteen,

and of course she's in the you know she's
in the the land of

you know scattered where they were
scattered,

~ and you know those that did not return
after the

~ Medo Persians took over, they stayed out
in the land of captivity.

That's where Esther is, and she talks then
the king said to the wise

men who understood the times, for this was
the king's manner toward all

who knew the law and justice.

And so he sought wise men who knew the
times,

and they were at his you know,

in his contemporary location. Isaiah
nineteen,

eleven through thirteen, surely the
princes of Zoan are fools.

Now he's going to mention these places,

and he is he is saying they're fools,

he's saying they're foolish, but they
should have been wise,

and that's the point. So there were wise
men there,

they just weren't as wise as they thought
they were,

and so he mentions them as being from
Zoan.

Talks about Pharaoh's wise counselors,

give foolish counsel. ~ Your wise men,

let them tell you now, let them know what
the Lord of hosts

has purposed against Egypt. The princes of
Zoan have become fools,

the princes of Naf are deceived,

they also have deluded Egypt, those who
are in the mainstay of its tribes.

And so all throughout Egypt you had those
wise men.

Jeremiah 49, seven, he calls out Edom,

the Edomites.

thus says the Lord of hosts, is wisdom no
more in Temen?

And this is Eliphaz the Temanite,

he was from here, and this was a place
known for wisdom.

But is wisdom no more in Teman?

Has counsel perished from the prudent?

Has the wisdom vanished? And then Obadiah
verse eight Will I

not in that day, says the Lord,

even destroy the wise men from Edom?

And understanding from the mountains of
Esau.

And so again the Edomites were known for
wisdom.

Zechariah 9, verse 2. The burden of the
Lord was also against Hamath,

which borders on it, that is, which
borders Damascus,

and against Tyre and Sidon, though they
are very wise.

And so all these areas were known for
wise,

wise men, if you will, and so they were
all over the ancient world.

All right, at the time Israel's wisdom
books were written,

that is Job through Song of Solomon,

wisdom literature in its in its
neighboring cultures had been on the scene

for at least a thousand years.

But there's a big difference between the
wisdom literature we have

in the Bible versus the wisdom literature
of the ancient cities

and countries back then. And that is the
wisdom literature we have in the Bible.

is inspired by God. It is God breathed.

And so this Holy Spirit guided wisdom is
what we have

at our disposal if we will just make the
application.

And so because it's heaven divinely
inspired,

then we know it's always going to be good.

It's always going to work. And so we just
need to apply it.

Well I say always, but you know,

some of the proverbs are not

you know, money back guarantees,

but they are generally what happens,

like, you know, a soft answer does turn
away wrath,

but Jesus would be an exception to that.

Also he that findeth a wife findeth a good
thing,

Proverbs 18, 22, and obtains favor from
the Lord,

but yet Ahab didn't find a good wife,

or didn't you know, his wife that he found
was no good.

And so there are exceptions to these
general rules.

But when we follow God's word,

we can never ever go wrong.

All right, dimensions of wisdom then.

Let's take a look at that real quick.

Again, there are different types of people
that wisdom is ascribed,

to whom wisdom is ascribed. Notice there
are skilled craftsmen.

We read about that in Exodus 35 35 who
would build the ark.

They were given special wisdom.

There are those who are skilled in musical
arts.

These are mentioned in 1 Kings 4 31
through 32,

Jeremiah 9 17.

Military strategists and statesmen,

as we have in Isaiah ten thirteen and
twenty nine fourteen,

also Jeremiah forty nine, seven.

And then there were wise men who
accompanied magicians and soothsayers,

and we can find some of those in Genesis
forty one eight,

when Joseph, you know, and ends up
interpreting the dream that no one else
could.

Isaiah forty four twenty five also talks
about magicians.

and soothsayers having wise men near them.

Alright, but the context must determine if
that wisdom was true or false,

and of course if it's not God's wisdom we
know it was false.

And then there were those who were there
to help people make judicial decisions.

For example, Sec Samuel fourteen seventeen
and verse twenty,

also Secuel nineteen twenty seven,

you have wise men who are helping judges
make judgments.

And so wise men ranked alongside priests
and prophets as legitimate sources

of guidance in Israel. And so the priests,

you know, they they were the official
teachers of God's law.

The prophets delivered to the people the
direct revelations from God.

And but the wise men they operated in the
sphere of personal counsel

and political advice. And so they would be
beside people who needed

That wisdom. All right, now when we think
about the wisdom books,

of course, there's practical wisdom books
such as the Book of Proverbs.

Now, of course, all these books kind of
overlap.

Song of Solomon's kind of in its own
category,

but so far as wisdom books are concerned,

that is Job through Song of Solomon,

Job fits more into the category that's
been given philosophical wisdom,

that is philosophical wisdom book.

Also called higher or reflective wisdom.

And again, Job and Ecclesiastes are the
top examples of this.

Now, again, you know, philosophical wisdom
is in all all the wisdom books,

Job through Solomon. ~ it's just these two
kind of emphasize that aspect

a little more. All right. again,

Job focuses on the issue of justice,

whereas Ecclesiastes focuses on the
meaning of life.

But both books ask the question why?

Why? And both books,

faith is grappling with serious issues.

But again, the fear of the Lord undergirds

the suppositions and premises of these
books,

Proverbs and the Book of Job.

All right. And so again,

the foundational principle is the fear of
the Lord.

And the tenets of wisdom, and thus in
these books you'll see,

we'll see this is that God is the creator
of the universe.

And we find that for sure in Job
thirty-eight,

verse four through thirty-nine thirty,

where Job starts or or God starts asking
Job all these questions.

In chapter nine, verse four, you know,

God is also the source of wisdom.

God is wise in heart and mighty in
strength,

who has hardened himself against him.

And prospered and that's a rhetorical
question,

but note God is wise in heart and mighty
in strength.

In chapter eleven, verse six,

chapter eleven, six, that he that is God
would show you the secrets of wisdom,

for they would double your prudence,

know therefore that God exacts from you
less than your iniquity deserves.

And then in the book of Job, chapter
twelve,

and verse thirteen, chapter twelve,

thirteen.

With him, Job declares, with him are
wisdom and strength,

then to him there is God. He has counsel
and understanding.

In Job chapter thirty two, Job chapter
thirty two and verse eight.

The Bible says, But there is a spirit in
man,

and the breath of the Almighty gives him
understanding.

And so it's God that is the source of
wisdom.

And so, but the individual has a moral
responsibility to be a positive influence

in society. And of course, the universe
operates in with this moral law,

so law of sowing and reaping. But as we
said before.

We can't take that too far to say that all
sin results in suffering in this life.

And again, that was the big dilemma in the
book of Job.

~ both Job and his three friends thought
that way.

Their philosophy was, if you're suffering
in this life,

it must be because of some sin you
committed earlier,

and God is punishing you. And so if it's a
little suffering like stubbing your toe,

then it must be a little sin.

But if it's a big suffering, it must be
huge sin.

And nobody, I don't think, that I know
anyway,

has suffered physically, mentally,

emotionally, spiritually, quite like Job
has,

other than our Lord Jesus Christ.

And so for Job to be suffering to that
extent in their minds,

he must have sinned extremely.

But yet Job knows he didn't sin to that
extent.

He doesn't deny sin, he mentions in the
book that he has sins.

But he knows he knows he hasn't sinned
that much to deserve that much suffering.

And so he's trying to figure out why God
would do this to him.

The three friends, on the other hand,

they're convinced in their mind,

yes, Job, you had to have suffered because
God wouldn't do this to you

if you hadn't sinned. And so you have to
have sinned to get this kind of suffering.

so the three friends are just sure and
they gently,

they start out gently trying to provoke or
trying to what's the word

I'm saying here? Not so much provoke,

but try to lead him into repentance nice
and softly,

and then they their argument gets more
intense and they finally accuse him of
sin,

but Job in the integrity of his heart
cannot make up repentance

and just pretend he's repenting for
something that he has not done.

And so Job tries to justify himself at
God's expense.

And the three friends are trying to
justify God at Job's expense.

And so neither one of them are right,

but it does say of Job that he did not
sin.

In fact, he's called upon to offer
sacrifices for the three friends at

the end of the end of the book,

which again shows that God is still
pleased with Job.

And again, the only thing I can figure out
on that is because God knows

Job is just simply searching for truth,

intently searching for truth, and so he
has his up and downs.

Once he hears the truth, he's willing to
accept it wholeheartedly

and continue serving God. And that's a
great lesson in and of itself.

All right, now let's turn to chapter
twenty-eight,

chapter twenty-eight of the book of Job,

and we have this hymn to wisdom,

this hymn to wisdom. And again,

as stated, ~ chapter twenty-eight serves
as a good transition between

the three rounds of dialogue beforehand
between Eliphaz,

Bildad, and Zophar, and Job.

And then the three rounds of monologue
afterward.

Job's monologue of innocence, Elihu's
speeches,

and then God's final speeches and
questions really that he asked Job.

All right, now when we look at chapter
twenty-eight,

there are two key verses in here.

Along with the final verse. And those two
key verses are this we find

at Job twenty eight, twelve, but where can
wisdom be found,

and where is the place of understanding?

And then also in verse twenty,

from where then does wisdom come?

And where is the place of understanding?

And in between those two verses are three
sections.

Well, I I'll read the last verse as well.

So

So he asked those two questions from where
does wisdom come in the middle

of the chapter, and the chapter can be
outlined surrounding that.

And then the last verse verse twenty
eight,

and to man he said, Behold the fear of the
Lord,

that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is
understanding.

So where can it be found? It can't be
found anywhere physically upon this earth,

but it can be found in the fear of the
Lord and departing from evil.

But let's dig into this. Well,

we won't dig too deep into it for sake of
time,

but we'll take a look at it, kind of a
survey thing.

All right, but he's going to talk about
use some mining technology here that

for their day was was top-notch.

And, you know, we've advanced so much in
technology.

Not that we're any smarter than anybody
else.

I had a teacher tell me a long time ago
that the the cranial capacity

of all humans has been about the same.

Ever since God created them on the sixth
day of creation,

which is true. And so we just know a lot
more about our universe,

we've discovered a lot more than the
ancients have,

but their technology was top notch in
their time.

And so this begins out, chapter twenty
eight,

verse one Surely there is a mine for
silver and a place where gold is refined.

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper
is smelted from ore.

Man puts an end to darkness and searches
every recess for ore in

the darkness and the shadow of death.

And so he's talking about mining,

digging deep into the earth to bring out
gold,

silver, and iron ore. Notice he breaks
open a shaft away from people,

in places forgotten by feet. They hang far
away from men,

they swing to and fro. As for the earth,

from it comes bread and

But under underneath it is turned as by
fire.

And so there's several ways that they
would break open the earth.

They would build fires in there and make
it crack open and fall apart.

The hanging from from men and swinging to
and fro seems to refer

to harnesses that men would put on to go
deep down into caverns and to find gold

and silver and the things they mine.

Notice the earth it comes forth bread.

And what they mean by that is value,

there's treasure when you find the
treasure,

this gold, the silver, the ore,

and then you can can sustain yourself by
that by living off of it.

It's stones, verse six, are the sources of
sapphires and contains gold dust.

That path no bird knows, nor has the
falcon's eye seen it.

Now the falcon probably has the best
vision,

or at least to their knowledge,

the best vision of any creature of God
that God created.

you know, a falcon can see a little mouse,

you know, long far away, but not even the
falcon,

as great as his eyesight is, can he see
wisdom?

The proud lions have not trodden it,

nor has the fierce lion passed over it.

He puts his hand on the flint,

he overturns the mountains at the roots,

he cuts out channels in the rocks,

and his eye sees every precious thing.

He dams up the streams from trickling.

What is hidden he brings forth to light?

And so again, the the technology of the
mining.

They can crack the earth, go down into the
earth,

they find all kinds of things.

But verse twelve, this question,

but where can wisdom be found?

And where is the place of understanding?

Man and so he asks that question.

So all that mining technology,

but yet

You cannot see one piece of wisdom,

all that effort, all that strength,

all that ingenuity, but you cannot see one
piece of wisdom.

He continues in verse thirteen,

Man does not know its value, nor is it
found in the land of the living.

The deep says it is not in me,

and the sea says it is not with me.

Now the deep and the sea were mysterious
areas and

You know, if you couldn't figure anything
out,

then you could probably figure it out
there,

but not even they know where wisdom is.

fifteen, I cannot it cannot be purchased
for gold nor silver be weighed

for its price. It cannot be valued in the
gold of Ophir,

in the precious onyx or sapphire.

And Ophir was a place known for gold.

Neither gold nor crystal can equal it,

nor can it be exchanged for jewelry or
fine gold.

No mention shall be made of coral or
quartz,

for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it,

nor can it be valued in pure gold.

And so again there's just no place where
we can see wisdom,

where we can find wisdom. We cannot gather
it as we would gold or precious jewels

or even coral, which was which was a price
which was a very expensive thing back

then.

And then verse twenty he asks again,

From where then does wisdom come?

And where is the place of understanding?

He continues verse twenty one,

it is hidden from the eyes of all living
and concealed from the rocks of the air.

Destruction and death say we have heard a
reproof about it with our ears.

In other words, destruction of death,

they've heard of it, but they don't know.

God understands verse twenty three its way
and he knows its place,

for he looks to the ends of the earth and
sees under the whole heavens,

to establish a weight for the wind and
apportion the waters by measure.

When he made a law for the rain and a path
for the thunderbolt,

then he saw wisdom and declared it.

He prepared it, indeed he searched it out.

Then the conclusion and to man he said

Behold the fear of the Lord that is
wisdom,

and to depart from evil is understanding.

And so wisdom is not found in a location.

But it's a physical location, I should
say,

but it's found in a spiritual lifestyle,

a spiritual hunger, the fear of the Lord,

and to depart from evil. That's where
wisdom is.

And so this hymn to wisdom implores us to
seek God.

To seek his will, to turn from evil,

which, when you think about Job's
character,

that is mentioned three at least three
times in the book of Job,

three times in the first two chapters.

Because you remember Job 1:1 opens up with
that declaration:

there was a man in the land of us whose
name was Job,

and that man was blameless and upright,

one who feared God and shunned evil.

And again, that comes up.

Again in chapter two. It comes up again in
chapter one.

But again, you know, Job's life

showed that he feared the Lord and he
departed from evil.

And so we must do that as well.

And I mentioned this before in an earlier
episode,

but there's only the only way that Job
could endure,

and this is wisdom, put God first,

family second.

And stuff third. And we see that in Job 1,

1 through 5, right off the bat,

Job had those right priorities.

Because wisdom says if we put family first
and something happens to family,

then where's our faith going to be?

If we put stuff before family,

and stuff can is more fleeting than
family,

then where's our faith going to be?

But if we put God first, nobody can touch
him.

He's never changing.

He'll always love us, always do what's
what's in our best interest.

And so if something happens to us,

we still have someone higher. Something
happens to our family,

we have something higher, God.

Something happens to our stuff.

Wisdom says we have God. And so this hymn
to wisdom basically is fear

the Lord and keep his commandments.

Turn from evil, and we will be blessed.

in that process. Even if we have to go
through a struggle or many struggles like

Job did, we'll still come out on top by
the grace of God.

And so we will continue these bumper sows
in the book of Job,

but stay tuned. We'll have our next season
coming up shortly.

You know how time flies when you're having
fun.

But we appreciate your tuning in today and
we'd invite you back the next time.

As we continue studying the book of Job.