- What is immediately evident about the character and content of Job 28.
- In Job 28:3, who “sets bounds for darkness” and what does the clause mean?
- What activity is described in Job 28:3-11?
- What is implied by the reference to animals in Job 28:7-8?
- What is the relationship between Job 28:12-19 and the foregoing sections of the chapter? What is the essential message of these verses?
- What do these verses tell us about the writer’s knowledge of the resources and economy of the Ancient Near East. Incidentally, there are many different words for gold in the Hebrew. Why?
- Explain the metaphor of “the Deep” and “the Sea” (Job 28:14).
- Do the concluding verses (Job 28:20-28) imply that the search for wisdom is futile?
- What is the meaning of Job 28:22, i.e., that Abaddon and Death have only a report of wisdom?
- What is the point of the references to Creation in Job 28:24-27.
- What is the ultimate wisdom according to Job 28:28? Of what other Biblical book is this reminiscent?
- Is Job the speaker in this chapter? If not, who might the speaker be and why was this chapter placed here?
