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Job 28:4
4 The flood [nachal] breaketh out [parats] from the inhabitant [guwr]; even the waters forgotten [shakach] of the foot [regel]: they are dried up [dalal], they are gone away [nuwa`] from men ['enowsh]. KJV-Interlinear
4 'He sinks a shaft far from habitation, Forgotten by the foot; They hang and swing to and fro far from men. NASB
Though man loves gold, he is not satisfied with gold. Though man loves silver, he is not satisfied with silver.
Though man loves what he has, whatever it may be, he is never satisfied with what he has, but is driven for more and more, even driven to the most isolated and remote places on the earth.
Man will find ore on the surface and though it is easy to obtain, it still requires lots of work to refine it. Man will still dig and dig into the earth, sinking a hole, a shaft, as far as is humanly possible.
Man encounters water and can go no further, then abandons his mine never to return to it.
Man goes to isolated places. Places where man does not usually travel. Out of the way places, places far from normal habitation. Places that will be soon be forgotten once they are abandoned.
Man will live in his sunken mines. He will hang from suspended ropes rather than supporting himself with his feet.
God presents the situation filled with increasing burdens, to see just how far man will go, in order to gather his precious treasure from the earth.
And man places himself in extreme situations, unnatural situations, dangerous situations, in places that no normal person would travel to or live.
And in contrast there is Bible doctrine, something that is far superior in value, and permanent, and of which is as close to your possession as your positive attitude toward learning it.
Learning Bible doctrine is virtually effortless, painless, and safe.
People will expend great quantities of effort in order to obtain their desires the 'easy' way.
People will avoid learning Bible doctrine, because … well, there just doesn't seem to be enough work in it.
