Full of days - fully sated and contented with all the happiness that life could give him; realizing what Eliphaz had painted as the lot of the godly (Job 5:26, "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of grain cometh in in his season;" Psalms 91:16; Genesis 25:8; Genesis 35:29). The Septuagint adds, 'It is written, that he will rise again with those whom the Lord will raise up' Compare Matthew 27:52-53, from which it perhaps was derived, being a forgery introduced after Christ's coming on earth.
Remarks:
(1) When a believer is once brought by affliction to thorough repentance, how he abhors himself and his past spirit words, and whole bearing toward God (Job 42:6). He recognizes now first the infinite perfections of Yahweh, and perceives how presumptuous he himself was in trenching upon the prerogative of the Almighty and All-wise One, having 'uttered things which he understood not; too wonderful for him, and which he knew not' (Job 42:2-3). God's omnipotence contrasts strangely with man's feebleness-God's perfect justice with man's vileness and inability to punish righteously proud sinners.
(2) God alone can "demand" an account from His creatures (Job 42:4); man must not presume to "demand" an account of God's doings, but take it for granted that they must be good and righteous just because they emanate from God, who cannot but do right.
(3) As Job's friends had to come to God for reconciliation through the intercession of him whom they had wronged (Job 42:8-9), so must we come through the intercession of that Saviour whom our whole race has dishonoured and crucified by sin. Union in Christ, the great sacrifice, outweighs all the lesser differences of opinion which, for a time, estrange Christian friends. If, instead of quarrelling, they would pray more for and with one another, God would unite them in an indissoluble bend of love.
(4) Job's case may teach us that the believer's last days are his bent days, whereas the unbeliever's only good things are in this passing perishing scene. Let us learn to wait for our good things at the future restoration of man, when Christ shall come so his great Vindicator, and meanwhile choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.