Shedding Off One More Layer Of Skin

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
--Job 5:7

To the One doing great and unsearchable things,
Wonderful things without number.
He gives rain to the earth
And sends waters upon the fields.
He raises the lowly up high,
And he raises up the dejected one to salvation.
He frustrates the schemes of the crafty,
So that the work of their hands does not succeed.
He catches the wise in their own cunning,
So that the plans of the shrewd are thwarted.
--Job 5:9-13

But where shall wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?
Man knoweth not the price thereof;
neither is it found in the land of the living.
The depth saith, It is not in me:
and the sea saith, It is not with me.
It cannot be gotten for gold,
neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,
with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it:
and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls:
for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
--Job 28:12–18

Bob Dylan: Highway 61

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee,
and answer thou me.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
Who hast laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?
or who laid the corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
--Job 38:1-7

Bob Dylan: Jokerman