What is the meaning of Job 28:15? It cannot be bought with gold - Gold represents the highest earthly value, yet Job declares that even the finest gold has no purchasing power when it comes to wisdom. - Scripture consistently lifts wisdom above material wealth: • Proverbs 3:13-15: “She is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.” • Psalm 19:9-10 affirms that the judgments of the LORD “are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold.” • 1 Kings 3:9-13 shows Solomon asking for “an understanding heart” instead of riches, and God commending that choice. - Gold can be mined by human effort (Job 28:1-2), but wisdom must be received from God (James 1:5). - Practical takeaway: • Accumulating wealth cannot secure right standing with God. • True riches come from fearing the LORD (Job 28:28) and walking in His ways. Nor can its price be weighed out in silver - Silver was common currency; “weighed out” evokes commercial transactions. Wisdom, however, resists every attempt to assign it a market price. - Isaiah 55:1-2 invites us to receive what money cannot buy: “Come, buy without money and without cost.” - Acts 8:18-20 warns through Simon the sorcerer that spiritual gifts cannot be purchased with silver or gold. - 1 Peter 1:18-19 reminds believers that redemption itself was “not with perishable things such as silver or gold … but with the precious blood of Christ.” - Practical takeaway: • No ledger can quantify the worth of knowing God’s mind. • Dependence on financial resources blinds the heart to its deeper need (Luke 12:15). summary Job 28:15 teaches that God-given wisdom is utterly beyond the reach of wealth. Gold cannot buy it, silver cannot price it. Like Solomon, we seek it by humble petition; like Isaiah’s hearers, we accept it freely; like Job, we recognize that “the fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding” (Job 28:28). Treasure Him above all, and the wisdom He supplies will outshine every earthly asset. |
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