source of harmony and the principle of coherence in God’s work of creation (3:19f; 8:22–31), and this association is also found in prophets (Is. 40:12ff; Je. 10:12). Now the one-time critical dogma that creation was a late development of Exodus faith no longer stands unchallenged; powerful rebuttal has come from Hans Heinrich Schmid and others.59 Wisdom can hardly be separated from a world-view, a view of the world shaped by belief in creation. The great discourse in Job 28 rebukes the ambitions