Here, I. Job complains that he cannot understand the meaning of God’s providences concerning him, but is quite at a loss about them ( Job 23:8 , 9 ): I go forward, but he is not there , etc. Eliphaz had bid him acquaint himself with God. “So I would, with all my heart,” says Job, “If I knew how to get acquainted with him.” He had himself a great desire to appear before God, and get a hearing of hi...