Then Job spoke again: “You people really know everything, don’t you? And when you die, wisdom will die with you! Well, I know a few things myself—and you’re no better than I am. Who doesn’t know these things you’ve been saying? [Job 12.1-3]
I don't know how anyone else reads this, but I sense unmistakable arrogance in Job's words here.
Ironically, Job also insists his friends should be silent a little further in to this speech even acknowledging that silence is the wisest thing they could do!
If only you could be silent! That’s the wisest thing you could do. [Job 13.5]
How might Job have benefitted from his own advice? I think greatly!
Rather than try to discern every word and sentence of Job's and his friends' arguments, it seems to me that wisdom would have been found in their silence as a group! This is based on the fact that all of them had to repent in the end.
Would Job have come out any differently had he simply meditated on God's Word and knowing God even more than he supposedly already did?
Father, help me to understand the value of meditating on Your Word without input from any source other than Your Holy Spirit to guide my thoughts and my belief.
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