Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Mga Kawikaan 1:3

After explaining all of this, God goes on to deliver a second lecture to Job, in which He replies to the question he had asked concerning the prosperity of the wicked, namely, why God does not wipe out the wicked who ravage civilization like beasts of prey. In His response, God points out that a similar question can also be asked concerning the animal world: why He created both weak and strong animals that live alongside one another, the strong preying on the weak. According to Job, He should only have created weak and powerless creepy-things! But that would not have befitted the greatness of the Creator. His stature requires that He create awesome and terrifying creatures whilst providing, through His Providence, for the weaker species to survive, thereby demonstrating that from on most high, a guardian, (Ecclesiastes 5:7) a Single One, rules over all of them. Likewise, there are fierce, tyrannical and powerful individuals amongst mankind, but He has nevertheless provided, through His Providence, for the survival of humanity by making it societal by nature, endowing it with the power to do justice and act with probity (Proverbs 1:3, 2:9) as Elihu has already clarified in Chapter 35.³It might well be asked why God did not take the opportunity of revealing to Job the simple truth, that we the readers have known all along, namely, that his suffering and the loss of his family and all his possessions occurred within the setting of a contest between God and Satan as to whose evaluation of his integrity was correct. That God does not do so is perhaps of no lesser significance; there are some things that a person just does not have to know.

FOR ASK NOW OF THE DAYS PAST. He states “G-d will not forgive you, nor will He be long-suffering with you for idolatry and corruption with graven images and all forms of likenesses, for He has done with you what He has never done with any nation. He has made you hear the voice of G-d speaking out of the midst of the fire¹⁰⁶Verse 33. so that His fear may be before you¹⁰⁷Exodus 20:17. and that you declare His Unity and not corrupt yourselves. He has taken you to Him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and by wonders¹⁰⁸Verse 34. so that you should not worship anything beside Him. Thus you have been shown all this with your eyes that thou mightest know that the Eternal, He is G-d,¹⁰⁹Verse 35. that He is One, and His Name One,¹¹⁰Zechariah 14:9. and there is none else beside Him.¹⁰⁹Verse 35. For out of heaven He made thee to hear His voice¹¹¹Verse 36. to teach you the discipline of wisdom;¹¹²Proverbs 1:3. and upon the earth He made thee to see His great fire¹¹¹Verse 36. burning unto the heart of heaven,¹¹³Above, Verse 11. and all His words thou didst hear out of the midst of the fire.¹¹¹Verse 36. And He brought thee out ‘b’phanav’ (with His presence),¹¹⁴Verse 37. similar to ‘al panav’ (before His presence), with His great power which is in His presence. And since the Great Name is G-d in heaven above and upon the earth beneath, and there is none else¹¹⁵Verse 39. you shall keep His commandments and His statutes so that it may be well with thee¹¹⁶Verse 40. in heaven above, and that thou mayest prolong thy days¹¹⁶Verse 40. upon the earth beneath.”