Job 28:28 - Exposition

And unto man he said . Not in so many words, not by any written or spoken revelation; but by the nature which he implanted in man, and especially by the conscience wherewith he endowed him. Man feels in his heart of hearts that whatever wisdom may be in the abstract, his true wisdom is "the fear of God," his true understanding "to depart from evil." No amount of intelligence, no amount of cleverness, or of information, or of knowledge, or of worldly or scientific wisdom, will be of any avail to him, unless he starts with this "beginning" ( Psalms 111:10 ; Proverbs 1:7 ), and builds on this foundation. This foundation, at any rate, Job had. since God bore him witness that he had it ( Job 2:3 ).