Job 28:27 Commentary and Bible Study

Then he (God) saw it (feminine), that is, he saw wisdom. Again, this does not mean that God was looking at something outside of himself; he was looking at something within himself, which he consciously considered and declared. By declaring it, he made it accessible to those outside of him. He declared it in the act of creation when he spoke and the universe sprang into existence. By making man, a creature capable of thinking God’s thoughts after him and studying his works, God made a creature that could know and think about his own Creator, for man was from the beginning capable of understanding wisdom. Because God employed his wisdom in this creative act, he put his wisdom on display to be examined by man, for the act of understanding what God has made must bring man in contact with the wisdom of God. He is not able to properly understand the mechanisms which operate in nature without recognizing the part played by wisdom. If he chooses to exclude wisdom from his explanation, he his missed out a great layer in his explanation which impoverishes him and only gives him half an answer. Unless we see purpose in the world, we do not see it as it really is. ‘When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: ²⁸ When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: ²⁹ When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: ³⁰ Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; ³¹ Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men’ (Proverbs 8:27-31).