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约伯记［第12章］
Book of Job 12

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约伯记［第12章］|Book of Job 12

【从神的作为中寻找智慧】

主讲:郑伟健同

29/12/2023


引言：聪明可以是优点，也可以是缺点。

一、人的聪明不及神的智慧 （V1-6）

琐法的直接和无礼刺激了约伯，使他难以忍受，于是他用了三章的篇幅来回应琐法和其他两位朋友。甚至约伯不客气地说琐法所讲的不单他知，并且是人人皆知的常识，何奇之有？因为他们所说的，都是出自于人的学识与经验。

朋友们的智慧并未解释在约伯的处境，而且公义完全人却成了被讥笑的牺牲品。无论是朋友的定论，或是约伯讽刺般的回应，这里神似乎再一次提醒我们一件事。即便对方的遭遇或是困难和我们曾经很相似，甚至好像我们已经看过很多遍，也要求神帮助我们，暂时放下自己的聪明，好好陪着对方，一起寻求神，找出根源。

二、一切都有创造者的旨意（V7-12）

约伯接下来说连“走兽、飞禽、大地和鱼”都可以作他的教师，言下之意，是琐法连禽兽都不如。约伯认为除非人有亲身经验，否则很难了解个中真相，他认为老年人虽人生经验丰富，知识广博，但绝不能与神的智慧能力相提并论。

约伯坚持认为神专制独断。他竭力表白自己的不幸不能证明他是坏人。他说，甚至自然界也不赞同这样的说法。

三、人框不住神的智慧与权柄 （V13-25）

智慧与权能都属神，约伯再一次强调神掌管万有，善与恶都在祂权下。人只能承认无论是患难或是顺境都在神绝对的主权之下，也却无法测透完全人和恶人，祂都灭绝的原因。因为只有神有能力和智慧，只有祂能将深奥的事从黑暗中彰显。

所以，人不能用有限的智慧去猜测或推断无限的神，更没有能力要求神按照人自己的公义标准赏善罚恶。

总结：当从神的作为中寻找智慧

神极其高超伟大，祂的作为人无法测透。虽然我们很常想不通神的作为，但是这是正常的。因为人的智慧很难一刹那就完全理解神的智慧。但当我们持续信靠、紧紧跟随，那么在未来的某个时间点，神会带领我们看懂祂的美意的！


Job Chapter 12: Finding Wisdom in the Works of God
GK611 Morning Devotion
29/12/2023
The Morning Devotion Speaker: Co-worker Asher Chang

Introduction: Intelligence can be an advantage or a disadvantage.

1. Man's Wisdom is Not as Good as God's (V1-6)

Zophar’s directness and rudeness irritated Job so much that he could hardly stand it, so he spent three chapters responding to Zophar and the other two friends. Even Job nonchalantly says that what Zophar is saying is not only known to him, but is common knowledge to everyone, so what is so strange about that? For what they say comes from human learning and experience.

The wisdom of the friends did not explain Job’s situation, and the just and perfect man became the victim of ridicule. Whether it is the friends’ judgment or Job’s sarcastic response, here God seems to remind us once again of something. Even if the other person’s situation or difficulty is similar to ours, and even if we have seen it many times, we ask God to help us to put aside our own cleverness for a while, to stay with the other person, to seek God together, and to find out the root cause.

2. Everything is in the will of the Creator (V7-12)

Job then says that even "beasts, birds, earth and fish" can be his teachers, implying that Zophar is not even as good as beasts. Job believed that it was difficult to understand the truth of the matter unless one had personal experience, and he believed that older people, despite their experience and knowledge, could never match the wisdom and power of God.

Job insisted that God is authoritarian and arbitrary. He strenuously confesses that his misfortunes do not prove that he is a bad person. Even nature, he says, does not agree with such a statement.

3. Man Cannot Frame God's Wisdom and Power (V13-25)

Wisdom and power belong to God. Job ecognize once again that God is in control of all things, and that both good and evil are under His authority. Man can only ecognize the absolute sovereignty of God in times of trouble and in times of good, but he cannot penetrate the reason for the extinction of both the perfect and the wicked. For only God has power and wisdom, and only He can reveal deep things out of darkness.

Therefore, man cannot use his finite wisdom to guess or infer the infinite God, much less to demand that God reward good and punish evil according to man’s own standard of righteousness.

Conclusion: Finding Wisdom in God’s Works

God is exceedingly high and great, and His works are beyond human understanding. Although we often do not understand God's works, this is normal. This is because it is difficult for human wisdom to fully understand God's wisdom in a single moment. But when we continue to trust and follow closely, then at some point in the future, God will lead us to see and understand His good will!