What is reliable?

Stricken with great financial, person, and physical calamity, Job seeks advice from his friends. And although his friends offer some appropriate insights, they mostly offer useless hot air. Job, realizing the emptiness of their ramblings, complains (Job 6:15-17, NLT),

My brothers, you have proved as unreliable as a seasonal brook

that overflows its banks in the spring

when it is swollen with ice and melting snow.

But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears.

These lines reflect our own futility in seeking earthly answers to spiritual questions. Earthly philosophizing seems enticing at first, but what happens when the "hot weather arrives"?

Meanwhile, as Job seeks answers from his friends, David seeks answers from God, and with more success (Psalm 9:10, NLT),

Those who know your name trust in you,

for you, O LORD, do not abandon those who search for you.

Simply put, earthly wisdom, despite sometimes sounding insightful, is not eternally reliable. Eventually, the "hot weather arrives" and that wisdom disappears. But God is eternally reliable.