Solomon says, “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof,” Eccles. 7:8. It was so here in the story of Job; at the evening-time it was light.

The words of Job justifying himself were ended, Job 31:40. After that he said no more to that purport. The words of Job judging and condemning himself began, Job 40:4–5. Here he goes on with words to the same purport.

Job, in his discourses, had complained very much of the censures of his friends and their hard usage of him, and had appealed to God as Judge between him and them, and thought it hard that judgment was not immediately given upon the appeal.

You have heard of the patience of Job (says the apostle, James 5:11) and have seen the end of the Lord, that is, what end the Lord, at length, put to his troubles.