eye view. In chapters 38 and 39 God invites him to a bird’s eye view, or rather a divine eye view of the universe, responding to his mentality by showing him how utterly narrow and confined is his world view, how insignificant he is as a being. There is no way he can understand even a fragmentary part of God’s activity in the universe. The wild animals, the weather, the constellations, are all observable wonders, but man is incapable of understanding them (much more so in Job’s days). They are equally
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