NOTES for Job 39:26-27
So what is wisdom? The human answer is clear: wisdom is the practice of righteous life. And what is God's answer? Here is His world; in it forces unknown to man act, and beings dwell that have absolutely nothing to do with man. They simply exist, and that is all. Do they live and act by human wisdom? At first glance, such an answer has no relation to righteous life. Nor, for that matter, to human life at all. But that is only at first glance. If one thinks about it... If righteousness were only a human matter, and the Torah only a moral code, then perhaps it would be so.
But in fact everything is different. The Torah is not merely a moral code. It is a moral code only in the last place. In the first place, it is a description of the laws of spiritual life, the very laws that determine a person's relations with God and people's relations with one another. But these laws cannot fail to be connected with others, with those that determine the life and existence of the universe itself.
They come from one Source: the laws of the universe and the laws of human relationships. And if a person claims the right to give a final evaluation of human relations, and of people themselves too, claims that he is righteous and that his righteousness is complete and beyond question, then he must also know everything about the universe. The world must submit to him as willingly as his own judgments about his righteousness. And if it is not so, then at minimum a person's assessment of his own righteousness is not final. Nor is his assessment of other people's righteousness. Then it is better not to claim the role of judge in this regard at all, leaving final evaluations to God.
In the end, God makes righteousness possible for man, not man for himself. Of course, given the limitation of every human view, this is not easy to understand.