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gates of deep darkness?”
Chapter 26:5 and 6,

“The departed spirits tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
Naked is Sheol before Him, and Abaddon has no covering.”
He says only God knows that. What about wisdom, Job? Where does
wisdom come from? Chapter 28, please, verse 12. Job asks:
“But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of
understanding?”
Verse 23,

“God understands its way, and He knows its place.”
Job already knew that reason was not with men, that it was with God.
Look at chapter 38:31,

“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of
Orion? Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, and guide
the Bear with her satellites? Do you know the ordinances of the
heavens, or fix their rule over the earth?”

Look at chapter nine, please. Job is speaking. Verse 7,
“Who commands the sun not to shine, and sets a seal upon the stars;
Who alone stretches out the heavens and tramples down the waves of
the sea; Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades, and the

chambers of the south; Who does great things, unfathomable, and
wondrous works without number.”
Do you see what I am saying? Job already knew all these things. In
chapter 38:35 God said, “Who controls the lightning?” In chapter 28:26,
Job says, “He has set a limit for the rain and a course for the
thunderbolts.” Job already knew most of what God was saying. Chapter
38:39-41. God said, Job, did you know I provided for the animals?
Chapter 12:7-10 in his answer to Zophar, Job points that out. Do you see
my point?
I know God was not telling Job: Do you see how ignorant you are, Job?
You do not know anything. Because almost all of what God said, Job had
already said in the debates. I used to think that was the purpose. That God
was showing Job that if you do not understand things natural, how are you
going to understand things supernatural?
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