Albert Einstein
It’s a mysterious statement and how interesting, that it comes from the mouth of Zophar, the least likely of the three “friends” of Job. After all, his next breath his full of chastisement and nastiness toward Job. And yet, he does have this one right.
Oh, how I wish that God would speak,
that he would open his lips against you
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,
for true wisdom has two sides. . . . [Job 11:5-6a, NIV]
In a wonderful online homily, this topic is explored more fully, but it fits in with my own view of the many paradoxes that exist in scripture and faith. An old friend used to call it the both/and of truth. In God, two seemingly opposed truths can actually co-exist. How is that possible? I don’t begin to understand it. But I believe it because it allows for the conundrums that an “all-knowing God” and the “free-will of Human” can be true as well. It is wisdom to accept the possibility of their concurrence.
Another view of the two sides of wisdom might be the simple explanation that everything is not revealed to us, like the iceberg that only shows a tip of itself while the greater story is beneath the water.
As I see it, God himself declared that Job was a righteous man whose love for God was pure and above all other living men. Job committed no sin that we could see to warrant his suffering. God allowed it to happen at the hand of the enemy. Somehow, God knew it would take Job to the “next level” of understanding and wisdom and faith. At great cost.
A deeper truth had to be examined, a more difficult investigation into human.
I must remember this basic truth as well: all stories have two sides, all of suffering is an iceberg, all sin has a path leading up to it. So often, I hear people condemn those who adhere to looking at the world as black or white, good or bad, etc. But I think it may be a mistake to assume that the only alternative is to say that the world is grey, as though the contrary forces would meld into something new. Instead, it may just be possible, from a God view, that both black and white can live together and still retain their identities.
Meditations from Zion 
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I really like this. I, too, discovered Biblical paradoxes many years ago. ‘Still makes my head hurt. But, what I find most intriguing (sorry) is Einstein’s quote. Thanks for finding it and sharing!
LOL. Gee, what a shock, that Einstein is more intriguing than me. No problem. Thanks for reading. ib
No yin without yang.
True wisdom is knowing what you have been doing and knowing what you should do.. Yet that is only knowledge. If you ever read Solomon’s writings you would see that knowledge is one thing. Wisdom is another. And understanding the two is completely different. Have nice day ..
Knowledge and understanding are integrated to bear the fruit of wisdom.
The internet – home of QAnon and other fables – seems to preserve our ideas long after we have expressed them in print, permitting discovery by new readers. Wondering now how serendipity might might bring somebody to MFZ long after both you and I are gone.