During the seven days, while his three friends sat around him without speaking, job was thinking about himself and his sufferings, and all that had befallen him. We cart not wonder at this, for very likely we should do worse than Job, if we were in the same case, His trials were great, and his patience or endurance under them was very remarkable, so that it is mentioned in the Epistle of James, chapter 5, where patience and endurance, (going on without complaining or rebelling against one's trials), are spoken of.
But Job did not think of God, or rather did not begin with God, in connection with his troubles. He had been, in a way. admiring himself, as a godly man, and now with the loss of everything in which he had been satisfied and contented, he wishes he had never lived, and that he may die to get away from his distress. But Job had been looking at the wrong object; he knew that his Redeemer liveth (chapter 19:25), but he did not know that self, that which Scripture calls the flesh (Romans 7 and 8) is to be "abhorred". He found this out at the end of his trials (chapter 42:6) that he needed to have God for his object.
The ways, thoughts and words of Christ as He passed through this world, finding everything contrary to Him, are the Christian's example; meek and lowly in heart was He, and those who having first come unto Him, afterward take His yoke of obedience and submission to the Father's will, find rest to their souls (Matt. 11:28-3028Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:28‑30)).
In chapter 3 then, some of the things stored up in Job's heart came out. Much more came out afterward, as his friends talked on. He had not been entirely happy, not entirely at rest, he says in verses 25, 26, nor could he be, when he was so self-satisfied. The Christian's peace comes from the fullest submission to and trust in God.