He examines his history finally, and no doubt what he tells of himself there, was every bit true.
He was an almost blameless man in his life, and there was none like him in all the earth. Wealth was not what he lived for (verses 24-25), nor was lie in any way turned to idolatry, bowing down to the sun and moon,—the first form of worshiping idols (verses 26-28). Yet with all that he could testify about himself, Job could not find rest for his poor troubled heart in that.
How hard it was for this excellent man to turn away from himself, to see with God how worthless the best that man can do is a means of becoming just in God’s sight! In what follows we shall find that job is for the most part a listener, but not to the false charges of his friends.