Big Idea: Job realizes that Yahweh’s ways are more wonderful than he has known before, and he comes to enjoy Yahweh’s renewed blessings on his life.

Understanding the Text

After Yahweh speaks to Job in chapters 38 and 39, Job replies tentatively to him in 40:3–5. Yahweh’s second round of questions, in 40:6–41:34, with his detailed descriptions of Behemoth and Leviathan, then evokes a more definitive response from Job in 42:1–6. In his second reply, Job acknowledges that he has come to a more accurate understanding of who Yahweh is and also of who he himself is as a finite mortal living under Yahweh’s authority.

In the epilogue (42:7–17), Yahweh brings resolution to Job’s situation. Yahweh affirms Job’s innocence against the charges of the friends, instructs the friends to ask Job to pray for …