Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
God's wisdom and power govern the numbering of the clouds in wisdom and the staying of the bottles of heaven for the outpouring of rain, even when the rain turns dust into mud and causes the clods to cling together. This ordering of heaven is placed alongside His care for living creatures, showing that the One who controls the clouds also provides for hungry ravens and other animals. The question belongs to God's speech in Job 38-40, to be read as the Word of God instead of human fallacies, showing that man took no part in creating the world or anything that has the breath of life. It upholds that man was created after the image of God and Christ.
It is one of God's questions about the mysteries revealed in nature that men of greatest intellect cannot understand and the most profound scholar cannot answer. The question was asked not to be answered but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach that human wisdom is limited, since in the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings. It means God's infinite power by which He reveals Himself cannot be comprehended, and He is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension. Both in divine revelation and in nature God has given mysteries to command faith, so that men may be ever searching, ever inquiring, ever learning, and yet there is an infinity beyond.
God's wisdom and power govern the numbering of the clouds in wisdom and the staying of the bottles of heaven for the outpouring of rain, even when the rain turns dust into mud and causes the clods to cling together. This ordering of heaven is placed alongside His care for living creatures, showing that the One who controls the clouds also provides for hungry ravens and other animals. The question belongs to God's speech in Job 38-40, to be read as the Word of God instead of human fallacies, showing that man took no part in creating the world or anything that has the breath of life. It upholds that man was created after the image of God and Christ.
It is one of God's questions about the mysteries revealed in nature that men of greatest intellect cannot understand and the most profound scholar cannot answer. The question was asked not to be answered but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach that human wisdom is limited, since in the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings. It means God's infinite power by which He reveals Himself cannot be comprehended, and He is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension. Both in divine revelation and in nature God has given mysteries to command faith, so that men may be ever searching, ever inquiring, ever learning, and yet there is an infinity beyond.