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Jobe chapter 39 verses 13 through 17 the wings of the ostrich wave proudly but are are they the pinions and plumage of love?

For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, forgetting that a

foot may crush them, that the wild beasts may trample them.

She deals cruelly with her young as if they were not hers,

though her labor being vain, yet she has no fear because God has made her forget wisdom and

given her no share in understanding.

How about this picture of the ostrich in Job 39?

Basically, being foolish and even the care of the ostrich's children and why is that why is the

ostrich so not smart because verse 17 says God has made her forget wisdom and given her no

share in understanding. This verse this passage is a potent reminder that apart from the gift of wisdom from God

Everything in creation including ostriches and you and me would be totally foolish.

We need wisdom and God alone is the author of it.

The Book of Job has made that clear over and over again that's why it's called wisdom literature in the

Bible because it's a picture of how God is wise and we are not.

Which means if we need wisdom, if we want wisdom, we must seek God for it.

We must find it in relationship with God.

Yes, he will buy his common grace bestow wisdom in different ways at different times and

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