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Job chapter 38 verse 36.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?

This question comes in the middle of a whole list of questions that basically God is asking Job at the end of his

journey in this book and all the questions around this one are basically saying

Job see that I am God I am the one who causes the rain to fall, not you.

I'm the one who commands the snow and the hail

and the light and the darkness to come like they all obey me.

God says not you and then you come to this this about wisdom, who has put wisdom in the inward parts

are given understanding to the mind.

Job is actually considered in the Bible a part of wisdom literature.

This is a book and a sense about wisdom and you think about it.

It makes sense, particularly in light of all that Job goes through in his suffering.

He lacks wisdom.

Think about wisdom.

Like how do we have wisdom?

How do we make wise decisions? Well, the more knowledge we have, the more

wise decisions we make. How many times do we say, ah, if I'd have known this, I wouldn't have done

that. And a decision might seem foolish because we lacked knowledge.

Sometimes we lack wisdom because we lack experience.

Like once we've been through certain things we have more wisdom for the next time. We're often prone to

make more foolish decisions if we are in something for the first time. So we lack

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