If you have been following this, you probably wondered when we'd get to the end. The hard thing is that there is so much to Job. As you listened to his friends Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar more or less put him down as "you had to have done something wrong." In every case, Job's response was "I didn't do anything!" Yet, his friends persisted, based on their supposed knowledge of how life is – ie: "you do something bad, and something bad happens to you."
So after all the older, wiser men had their turn, a young guy named Elihu jumps in. He was courteous and let his elders speak first. But when he jumped in with both feet, he was not on the same page as the old guys. He starts with a sharp reminder that God does not do wickedness or wrong. His words must have cut like a very sharp knife when he declared "Surely, God will not act wickedly, and He will not pervert justice." In other words, justice will be justice – it will not be twisted or corrupted. God cannot do anything but be "just".
That is a far cry from where we humans exist. "Justice" becomes revenge or takes on a relative side. It's like saying that one plus one is two unless you are adding ____________, and you fill in the blank. Elihu seemed to have the message – "Our God is an awesome god – there is no other like Him." Remember Elihu in 37:23 said "Even if we cannot find Him, He is still above anything else we know of, and He not only cannot, but will not change what justice is." Maybe that's the key point.
Finally, after all God had to say in chapters 38 through 41, Job stops. His mouth forms the words "surrender" and he admits "I talked about what I really did not fully grasp." Job lays his life before God and says "Okay, I'm going to shutup and let you instruct me."
While the end of the story is about God rebuking Job's friends and then restoring all Job's fortunes, the real story is how God and Job treated one another.
Job stepped back from a precipice and simply said "You are great, and I know that I am nothing. Teach me so I can change." He was willing to listen and change.
God laid it out to his friends and said "Make an offering and have Job pray for you and I will accept his prayers and act justly." God accepted the prayers and God accepted Job and did not smash them for their foolish words. Not only did God restore what job had, he increased it twofold. Can you imagine the headlines (if there had been newspapers then)! "Richest man's fortune doubles overnight."
When God blesses, He blesses. All it took was recognizing who God is and letting Him show the way. Job decided to listen – to change – to follow.
What about us?