This is. wonderful description of God's wisdom and it may have been intended as. rebuke to Job's claim of wisdom (Job 9:4). "Zophar pointed out that the Lord's mysterious, plummetless, unknowable wisdom exceeds the height of the heavens, the depths of the grave, the length of the earth, and the breadth of the sea. How then could Job possibly oppose God in court?" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 733). Zophar's comments here are true, the problem is that Zophar is contradicting himself. "If God's ways are unknowable, how could Zophar know that God was overlooking some of Job's sin?" (Zuck p. 54). He claims that God's ways are unsearchable, yet he assumes that he knows exactly why Job is suffering.

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