In Job, chapter forty-two, verse three, the servant of God admitted that God’s ways are beyond human comprehension and that the misunderstandings he had declared were unjust. Still, in the suffering and prayers, Job did not sin against God. Still, his misunderstanding and his complaints against God led him close to pride and to the belief that God was in some way not perfectly good. Now, with the appearance and revelation of his Lord, his perspective completely changes in verse five.
Job acknowledged his error and was ready to submit to serve God no matter what happened to him. He would fear and love God for God’s sake, with or without his health, regardless of personal gain, as in verse four. However, Job commits himself to God in faith, hope, and love while still suffering and not knowing why. Job proved satan’s accusation wrong in chapter one, verses nine through eleven, and vindicated God’s power to redeem and reconcile the human race to Himself.
In chapter forty-two, verse two, Job realizes that God knows everything within us, including the thoughts that would enter before we even consider speaking them out. Job admits that his mind prematurely did not know the right things to say but uttered foolishness based on his perspective. Job was now sensible of his guilt; he would no longer speak in his excuse; he abhorred himself as a sinner in heart and life, especially for murmuring against God, and took shame to himself.
The understanding enlightened by the Spirit of grace, our knowledge of Divine things far exceeds what we had before, as the sight of the eyes excels report and common fame. By the teachings of men, God reveals His Son to us, but by the teachings of His Spirit, reveals His Son in us, as in Galatians one, verse sixteen, and changes us into the same image, in Second Corinthians three, verse eighteen.