182 | Wisdom poem (JOB 28)

We're somewhere in the ancient Near East. Scholars put the final form of the Book of Job in the Persian period — roughly 540 to 330 BCE — though the stories behind it are almost certainly older. The world the text inhabits runs on active mining operations, a gem trade stretching from Ethiopia to Phoenicia, and a real cultural worry about cosmic order: who controls it, who understands it, and whether any human being can ever get a handle on it. Egypt and Mesopotamia had their own versions of that worry. Keep it in mind.Source:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1swBbbnGx6VmmuJYVnxttzeuDKOxf0bPC/view?usp=sharing