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The gifts of knowledge in the book of Job

The gifts of knowledge The gifts of knowledge

The book of Job is a book of the Old Testament, this book is dedicated to the importance of the Fear of the Lord, this is the gift of Job. The fear of the Lord or Serenity is defined as constancy, firmness, devotion, equanimity, stability. Constancy makes people secure in God.
Later we find in the Gospels a reference to this gift in the Parable of the Sower: The wisdom (the word of God) frutifies, in the gifts of knowledge or intelligence, through constancy.
In the book, Job, is a personage who falls into disgrace and begins a cycle of speeches with his friends about the end of the just and the impious, regretting his situation, and, talking about the designs of God makes a reference to the gifts of the knowledge, that is, to the perfect virtues of the knowledge: the spiritual gift of knowledge, the gift of counsel and the gift of wisdom:

To God belong wisdom and power, counsel and understanding are his. Job 12:13

The gifts mentioned in the discourse of Job are the gifts, the perfections of the wise, God in the old testament is the sage by excellence.
The perfect virtue (spiritual gift) of wisdom refers to the love for virtue and truth.
The gift of knowledge refers to the good intelligence, the progressive intelligence.
Finally, one of the most important gifts: the gift of counsel is what is known as the art of listening, in the Gift of Council we resolve what is presented to our judgement as God in person.
The Art of Listening is a perfection, a beatitude. The Gift of Counsel is known as Emulating God. To emulate is to imitate capturing the personality of the imitated.
The Gift of Counsel is one of the seven spiritual gifts of the state of grace, it is the gift of adult life and the conformity to God.
It is through these gifts, which are known as the gifts of knowledge (Thomas Aquinas, scholasticism) or perfect virtues of the knowledge that we know the unfathomable designs of the Providence and the divine order expressed in the beatitudes.
The final message in the book of Job is that beyond wisdom and its gifts, we overcome evil through constancy. The Fear of God is not only the origin of the gifts of the wise, but perfects them, even more.