extent, the key to the entire book of Job. The divine object was to expose to Job’s view the depths of his own heart, in order that he might learn to delight in the grace and mercy of God, and not in his own goodness, which was as a morning cloud and the early dew, that passeth away. Job was a true saint of God; and all Satan’s accusations were flung back in his face; but, all the while, Job was unbroken material, and therefore unprepared for “the end of the Lord”—that blessed end for every contrite