Job 29:1-25
In this chapter, Job yearned to return to his former days when he lived in God's favor, had prosperity, respect, and authority in his community. Evidently, according to verses 17 and 25, Job held some authority as a chief in his community because he punished the wicked. He also ruled in righteousness because he personally took care of the poor and the widows.
In Job 29:3, Job revealed that he understood that God guides the man of God by His light through a dark world. Jesus often taught that the man of God must emerge from darkness into God's glorious light. John 3:19-21.
In Genesis 1:2-5, God created the good light to penetrate the darkness of the earth that already existed. God created the light so that He could also create life which the light sustains. God also divided the light from the darkness so that He could create Day and Night for useful purposes, the Day for work and play and the Night for rest and sleep.
God had to have created darkness long before He created light. Genesis 1:2 reveals that the darkness of the earth concealed a condition called chaos. Chaos is the opposite of creativity. God is wholly creative and innocent. God did not know that that darkness hid the seeds of evil that would infect Lucifer and cause corruption to enter His good creations.
God is omniscient, but He only possesses and infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. God could not have known when He created the heaven and the earth that the darkness would continue to hide chaos which is the source of all the evil that has corrupted God's creations. Knowledge and wisdom are always creative, therefore, God could not have known about the evil hidden in darkness which, being wholly destructive, can only be a type of anti-knowledge. II Thessalonians 2:7.
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