Job laments his afflictions and begs to be delivered.
“Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little.” (Job 10:20)
Through God’s grace, he shows us our sins so that we can move our hearts away from sin and towards Him.
“Thus he is unable to ‘bewail his sorrow,’ for at once he sees the guilt of his sinful state, and by reason of the weight of earthly business, is not at liberty to bewail it. He is unable to ‘bewail his sorrow,’ who strives indeed to resist evil habits, yet is weighed down by the still increasing desires of the flesh. The presence of this sorrow had inflicted anguish upon the spirit of the Prophet, when he said, My sorrow is continually before me; for I will declare my iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin; [Ps. 38, 17. 18.] but the bands of his sin being loosed, he knew that he was ‘let go,’ who gave vent to his exultation, saying, ‘Thou hast loosed my bonds, I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving.’ [Ps. 116, 16. 17.]
Therefore God then ‘lets us go’ to bewail our sorrow, when He both shews us the evil things that we have done, and helps us to bewail the same, when we know them; He sets our transgressions before our eyes, and with the pitying hand of grace unlooses the bands of the heart, that our soul may lift itself up to liberty for the work of repentance, and loosed from the fetters of the flesh, may with free spirit stretch out towards its Maker the footsteps of love. (4) -St. Gregory The Dialogist
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