The Inner Self

"I had heard You only by the hearing of the ear, but now my spiritual eye sees You.
Therefore I loathe my words and abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes."
(Job 42:5,6)

Job 
Illustration from the Gustave Dore Bible
(1866)

Gustave Dore

(1832-1883)

French artist
Image courtesy/Fine Art America

"Someone has called the Book of Job, "The Epic of the Inner Life".
It is most felicitous.  We all know that there is an inner life;
that within the barriers of our being, behind all activities
and externalities, we ourselves live.  We all know that there
is transacted the real life."-C.I. Scofield

"...but now mine eye seeth Thee...Thy Shekinah...

   as Jarchi, "non-redeemed" ( Leviticus 19:20)
Thy Divine Glory and Majesty; 

the Logos, the Word, the Son of God, 

Who now appeared in a human form

 and spoke to Job out of the whirlwind, and
whom Job saw with the eyes of his body,

 as several of the patriarchs had seen Him
and which is the sense of an ancient writer; 

though no doubt he saw Him also

 with the eyes of his understanding

 and had a clearer sight
of his Living Redeemer, the Messiah,

 than he ever had before.

Job saw more of God in Christ,
of His nature, perfections, and glory
than ever as he had yet seen,
and what he had heard of Him
came greatly short of what he now saw...
a more clear and distinctive view of
the sovereignty, wisdom, goodness,
and justice of God
in the dealings of His providence
with the children of men, and with himself,
to which now he (Job) humbly submitted.
-Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

"And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the
Lord's glory are being transformed into His Image with
ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord,
Who is the Spirit."
(2 Corinthians 3:18)