The Book of Job concludes with Job’s second response to God and his realisation that he has come to a deeper knowledge of his place within God’s creation. There is a rebuke for Job’s friends and their counsel. Job’s fortunes are restored, there is an inheritance for his daughters and he dies at a great old age.

Job’s realisation that God is the omnipotent creator leads him to recognise that he spoke of things beyond himself. The only way forward therefore is to repent and recognise God’s unfathomable mystery. We, too, are invited to embrace the  mystery, and allow ourselves to be changed by our encounter with God – to see him with new eyes, just as Bartimaeus was able to do.