Job 28:27
then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.
BSB
ASV
Then did he see it, and declare it; He established it, yea, and searched it out.
KJV
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the sounding tempests, then did He see it and declare it; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. By 'rain' the sayings of those that preach are used to be denoted. Whence it is said by Moses; Let my doctrine be waited for as the rain; whose words, that is to say, when they gently persuade are 'rain,' but when they thunder out terrible things touching the Judgment to come, they are 'sounding tempests.'
So it is a speech of God after the manner of men. Searched - Not properly; for so searching implies ignorance, and requires time and industry, all which is repugnant to the Divine perfections; but figuratively, he did, and doth, all things with that absolute and perfect wisdom, so exactly, and perfectly, as if he had bestowed a long time in searching, to find them out.
Some make Job to speak of wisdom here as a person, and translate it, Then he saw her and showed her, &c., and then it is parallel with that of Solomon concerning the essential wisdom of the Father, the eternal Word, Prov. viii. Before the earth was, then was I by him, John i.
Then did he see it - That is, then did he see wisdom. When in the work of creation he gave laws to the rain and the thunder storm; when he weighed out the winds and measured out the waters, then he saw and understood the principles of true wisdom.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
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Through
Psalms 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
leads to
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
