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**Surely.** This is the continuation of Zophar's last address. Not Job's words. Compare [Job 35:16](../../../kjv/job/35/16) ; [Job 38:2](../../../kjv/job/38/2) . They are opposed to his own words, and confirm those of his friends. Compare his second address, [Job 20:1-29](../../../kjv/job/20/1-29) .
**is** = doth exist.
**vein** = outlet: i.e. mine, or shaft.

**earths** = dust.

**he** = man: i.e. the miner.

**men** = mortal men.

**lion's whelps** = sons of pride: i.e. ravenous beasts. nor = and . . . not.

**rock** = flint.

**Destruction.** Hebrew. *Abaddon.*

**winds.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .

**the fear** = the reverence.
**the LORD*** . One of the 134 alterations of the *Sopherim* ( App-32 ), by which the name "Jehovah" in the primitive text, was changed to Adonai.
**that is wisdom.** This was a libel on Job, for Job had this "fear" or reverence; yet he was suffering. That was the very point in question, and leads up to the answer. This was Zophar's philosophy. The fear of the LORD is not true wisdom; it is only "the *beginning* of wisdom" ([Psalms 111:10](../../../kjv/psalms/111/10) . [Proverbs 1:7](../../../kjv/proverbs/1/7) ; [Proverbs 9:10](../../../kjv/proverbs/9/10) ). True wisdom is to take the place of the sinner before God, and Job takes this place ([Job 42:5](../../../kjv/job/42/5) , [Job 42:6](../../../kjv/job/42/6) ). This is "the end of the LORD" ([James 5:11](../../../kjv/james/5/11) ), and it is "the end" of this book. This wisdom "justifies God" ([Psalms 51:3](../../../kjv/psalms/51/3) , [Psalms 51:4](../../../kjv/psalms/51/4) , [Psalms 51:6](../../../kjv/psalms/51/6) . [Matthew 11:19](../../../kjv/matthew/11/19) . [Luke 7:35](../../../kjv/luke/7/35) ). True wisdom is "given", and we have to be "made" to know it ([Proverbs 30:24](../../../kjv/proverbs/30/24) . [2 Timothy 3:15](../../../kjv/2-timothy/3/15) . 2Ti 38:36 ). Compare [Job 33:27](../../../kjv/job/33/27) , [Job 33:28](../../../kjv/job/33/28) ; [Job 34:31](../../../kjv/job/34/31) ; [Job 35:11](../../../kjv/job/35/11) ; [Job 39:17](../../../kjv/job/39/17) . Zophar's was *human* wisdom founded on human merit. To depart from evil is what every prudent man would do from good policy.

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