Job 38:36

Translations

Modern

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

Traditional

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

Literal

Who has put wisdom in the inner parts? Or who has given to the heart understanding?

Latin

Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam?

Original

Hebrew

English

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

Notes

Job 38:36

heart … mind: These words can also mean "ibis" and "rooster." The Egyptians believed the ibis bird knew about the Nile's flooding, the most important event in Egypt. Israel’s rabbis (religious teachers with authority) believed the rooster bird could predict rain or its distinctive sound (crowing) marked day and night. The question would then be Who taught the ibis and the rooster? See also Psalm 51:6; Proverbs 2:6; James 1:5, 17.

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
Psalm 51:6
Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
James 1:5
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
Job 9:4
God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
Exodus 31:3
And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability, and knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship,
James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
Exodus 36:1–2
“So Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person are to carry out everything commanded by the LORD, who has given them skill and ability to know how to perform all the work of constructing the sanctuary.”
Isaiah 28:26
For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

Glossary

Book of Job Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God God: Creator God: Creator of Man God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Reality Wisdom: Spiritual, from God

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