Are you beginning to get the purpose God has for giving us the Book of Job? God is using Job to teach us that He wants all His children to enjoy Him. And the only way we can learn this is in doing two things every day. (1) To judge myself and stop doing the things I know don’t please Him, and (2) to submit to God. Job hasn’t learned this yet, and so in this chapter he keeps on trying, just like he is telling his friends that people can do great things but they can’t understand God.
V.1-11 Job describes man’s struggles in this life. People search after gold and precious stones of every kind. They move mountains, change the courses of rivers — think of what science is doing today! They can do many wonderful things, but these solutions don’t give them the answers to the questions in verse 12.
V.13-19 All the treasures buried in the world cannot produce it.
V.21, 27 Death itself does not have the answer. God now leads towards the answer.
V.28 And here it is. Read this verse. Then read 1 Corinthians 1:30. Are we finding the answers to our problems in these two verses too? There is no other answer. Though Job tells this, he doesn’t apply it to himself. Is this why we don’t understand too?