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Bible study · Job 28:1-28

Job 28: Where will wisdom be found?

Read Job 28:1-28 before you meet.

In a few lines

The miner brings "the thing that is hidden" to light (28:11), but wisdom "is hidden from the eyes of all living" (28:21), and Strong's gives the first word as coming from the second's verb. God "searched it out" (28:27), the miner's verb in 28:3, and "To depart from evil" (28:28) has, in Hebrew, the verb and the word for evil of 1:1's "turned away from evil".

The verse to carry

“To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

Job 28:28

To talk about

  1. 1. Man digs out silver, gold and sapphires and brings "the thing that is hidden" to light (28:11). Then the chapter asks, "But where will wisdom be found?" (28:12). When you face a hard decision, where do you tend to look first for wisdom?

  2. 2. Wisdom "can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price" (28:15). What have you learned that no amount of money could have taught you?

  3. 3. "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding" (28:28). The chapter's answer is a way of living, not a place. What does turning away from evil look like in an ordinary week for you?

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