From " Hidden Treasures In The Book of Job"

A twenty-first-century reader may be tempted to attribute Job’s and his contemporaries’ confidence in the Creator’s work and wisdom to their lack of knowledge that has been made available since the scientific revolution. That’s one possible explanation, but I see another, one that seems equally if not more reasonable. In a particular context, these men were better educated than many of today’s leading scientists. They were in a better position to be taught by the animals, the earth, and their conscience. They were free of high-tech gadgets and multitudinous distractions that make up the so-called good life. Without the benefit of the knowledge explosion predicted by the prophet Daniel (12:4), Job and his friends were scholars of a different sort. They were “Naissance” men, predecessors of Renaissance men. They had a broad grasp of the science, philosophy, and theology of their day, an ability to integrate that often appears more helpful in discovering God’s fingerprints than deep knowledge of one subset of one academic discipline.