The Meaning of Wisdom

In this section of Job we see that they touch a very important point of wisdom. “Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding” (Job 28, 28) Now today we can’t seem to find any wisdom in fear on the other hand those who fear are considered weak for not being able to act over it. Fearing the Lord was what made our intellectual evolution stop during the inquisition.

The second part of this quote is really important as well. Because to depart from evil means you must know evil in order to go away from it. Because this would mean that God did want us to take from that fruit and to understand good and evil. This would be a direct contradiction from all that had been found said before. If we are to be happy under the hands of God and be able to live eating from the tree of life isn’t that the way to achieve true understanding of Life? Apparently God continues to contradict itself or at least, the Bible does.

If God truly is all knowing and all powerful it would be better for us to be in his hands and although right now the feeling of power that knowing and understanding good and evil  give’s is a false sensation. It is only a matter of time before we either realize the wrong of our doings or to simply meet the end of this road. This Bible makes it look as though all those who aren’t takers are simply left behind and makes it look as though they are weak.

What we should analyze here is if true wisdom lies in knowing good and evil? Or could it being understanding that maybe we don’t have the ability to distinguish these two and judge each other in order to see  these two in us? Finally should we really judge God and the Lord for what they have done to us if really we don’t understand good and evil?