Now My Eyes Have Seen YOU

 "This was the answer Job gave to YAHWEH:

I know that YOU are all powerful;

no plan of YOURS can be thwarted.

I spoke of things I did not understand,

too wonderful for me to know.

My ears had heard of YOU,

but now my eyes have seen you.

Therefore, I retract all I have said,

and in dust and ashes I repent.

YAHWEH blessed Job's latter days much more than his earlier ones.  He came to own fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.  He was also blessed with seven sons and three daughters.  The first daughter he named Dove, the second Cinnamon, and the third Bottle of Perfume.  Nowhere in the land was there found any woman who could compare in beauty with Job's daughters.  Their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.  He died old and full of years." - Job 42:1-3. 5-6. 12-17 

(Now my eyes have seen YOU.  Job's questions about suffering and death have not been answered, but now we realize that it was not essential.  GOD has responded.  GOD has revealed HIMSELF and Job has begun to live as someone who has been miraculously freed from his loneliness.  The words addressed by GOD to him seem reproachful, but Job feels better off with a thousand reproaches than with nothing.

What Job needed was not a revelation, since GOD gave him intelligence to investigate these human questions.  What he lacked was to see GOD, and this is the great yearning of the entire Scriptures: "Show us YOUR face and we will be saved" [Psalm 80:8].

In the last paragraph we have the conclusion of the popular story of the holy man Job.  Since he preserved his trust, it was rewarded in the end by the just GOD.

Job is the example of a Christian who courageously looks for an answer to today's problems: MY servant Job has spoken properly of ME.)

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