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Job 38:2
2 Who is this that darkeneth [chashak] counsel [`etsah] by words [millah] without knowledge [da`ath]? KJV-Interlinear
2 'Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? NASB
Truth is as broad and deep as the imagination can comprehend, and truth goes even beyond mans imagination.
The knowledge of God is vast, more vast than even our universe.
In Jobs day, knowledge was certainly limited, at least in the scientific field. But even today, we may be able to come up with scientific explanations of things, but we cannot come up with solutions as to their how's and why's.
For example, we may understand something about gravity, but we cannot duplicate it, cancel it out, or even explain it. Even recent theories concerning gravity, mathematically prove that it should be so great that nothing in this universe should be able to move about, and yet we can move about. If it is so great, then where is the greatest portion bleeding off too? And that gave rise to the many theories of more dimensions yet to be discovered. And so science forges ahead into the unknown. An unknown that should boggle the mind.
Job has already been described as the most righteous in the land in his day.
God here, addresses Job alone. Not the three friends, and not Elihu. They all had many good things to say, even many accurate truths, truths which taught us all a great deal of doctrine, but none here addressed Jobs problem.
But in their attempts to teach Job, they only served to cloud the issue with irrelevant information.
And so when God says, 'darkens counsel,' He means, 'Who is it that is expressing insufficient information?'
Certainly the three friends were off base. Even Elihu was not on target with respect to the issue at hand - ie. Jobs specific situation. And Job himself was searching for answers. So all fell short of explaining Gods actions.
We can safely assume that Job knew more doctrine than any of us, and if that is true, if Job who knew a great deal of truth, was searching for answers, then how can we, who know less, come up with answers to Gods will and ways?
And the answer to that is simple. We come up with answers by means of Gods Word. God alone teaches us.
We cannot discover the truths of life through philosophy, through science, through reason, through logic, through experiences, through emotion, through sincerity and so forth. There is no source of truth, except from God. He is truth. He is the source of truth. He upholds truth.
Anything that compromises truth, modifies truth, tries to alter truth, ignores truth, is false. On his own, man will never discover truth. Even through God, man has severe limitations toward learning truth. And even though technology has jumped forward light-years, in recent decades, all that we know does not even scratch the surface of Gods vast knowledge.
