Study in Wisdom

This interesting correlation between my reading in Job 32 today and the study of Proverbs that the men's Bible study has been doing showed up.

Note the connections to the Gospel of John and Daniel.

Continued study in wisdom from Proverbs

Pro 5:1    My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

Job 32:6    And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Job 32:7    I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Job 32:8    But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding; not the soul of man, or breath of God inspired by him, which is the candle of the Lord, searching the inward parts of men; for that leaves him without understanding of things of the greatest importance: rather, as the Targum, the Word of God, the essential Word, the Son of God, who gives an understanding of the best things, 1Jn 5:20; but, better, the Spirit of God, by whom the Scriptures were inspired, and who is breathed into men, Joh 20:22; and is a spirit of understanding to them; for though a man has an understanding of natural things, yet not of things spiritual; to have an understanding of them is the special gift of God, and is in particular the work of the Spirit of God: Elihu now having some reason to believe that he had the Spirit of God, and was under his inspiration, and was favoured with knowledge and understanding by him, is encouraged, though young, to interpose in this dispute between Job and his friends, and declare his opinion on the matter in debate; and which leads him to make an observation somewhat different from his former sentiment, as follows.

Joh 20:20    And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.

Joh 20:21    Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

Joh 20:22    And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

Dan 2:21    And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

Pro 2:5    Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Pro 2:6    For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

Pro 9:10    The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

One further point from my reading and Job 32. This links the passage of what's to be spoken to the Gospel.

Job 32:19    Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

Mat 9:17    Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

Son 7:9    And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Jeremiah 20:9   (KJV)

9  Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Job 32:19

Behold, my belly is as wine, which hath no vent,.... Or, "is not opened" (a), like a bottle of wine, as Ben Gersom, which is stopped close, and the wine in it new; which is most apt to ferment, and should have vent given it; so the Targum,

"as new wine, which is not opened:''

in the same manner Jarchi and Bar Tzemach interpret it; in these words Elihu illustrates, by a metaphor taken from new wine put into bottles and tightly stopped, what he had before more literally and properly expressed, and so in the following clause:

it is ready to burst like new bottles; or perhaps it may be better rendered, "like bottles of new wine" (b); for new bottles are not so apt to burst as old ones, and especially when they have new wine in them; the bottles of the ancients, and in the eastern countries, being made of skin, which better agrees with what our Lord says, Mat 9:17; by his belly he means his mind, which was full of matter, and that matter he compares to new wine in bottles, tightly stopped, which need vent, and are in danger of bursting: the doctrine of the Gospel is like to wine, Son 7:9; to wine neat and clean, being free from all human mixtures; to wine of a good flavour and pleasant taste, as the Gospel is to those whose taste is changed; to generous wine, which revives, and refreshes, and comforts; all which effects the doctrines of the Gospel have, when attended with a divine influence: and it may be compared to new wine; not that it is a new and upstart doctrine, it is the everlasting Gospel, made known immediately on the fall of Adam, and was ordained before the world for our glory; but because it is newly, or of late, under the Gospel dispensation, more clearly revealed: ministers of the word are like vessels, into which it is put; they are but vessels, even earthly vessels, and have nothing but what is put into them; and they are like vessels stopped up, when they are straitened in themselves, or shut up by the Lord, that they cannot come forth freely in their ministry, and when any outward restraint is laid upon them by persecuting magistrates, and when there is no open door for them in Providence; which gives them great pain and uneasiness, and, let the consequence be what it will, they are weary of forbearing, and cannot stay, but must speak the things they see and know; see Jer 20:9.

(a) לא יפתה "quod non est apertum", Pagninus, Michaelis, Schultens. (b) כאבות חדשים "sicut utres vino nova repleti", Piscator.