Job 28 - Mining for the Hidden Wisdom

In this most elegant poem, the author of Job takes a momentary break from the dialogues between Job and his friends to discuss the hiddenness of wisdom. The friends believe they have figured the Lord out; they know what He is doing and why. The poem explains that humans don't know wisdom, only God does, and that to claim to have figured Him out through wisdom displays a profound lack of fear of the Lord.