Verse 7. — 'Behold, I shall cry out, suffering violence, and no one will hear; I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.' 40. God disregards the complaints of the sorrowing in order to increase their benefit. — Almighty God, knowing what may prove profitable to us, feigns not to hear the voice of the sorrowing, that He may increase their benefit — that life may be purged through suffering, and that the tranquillity of rest, which cannot be found here, may be sought elsewhere. But some even of the faithful are ignorant of this grace of the divine dispensation. In the person of these it is now said: 'Behold, I shall cry out, suffering violence, and no one will hear; I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.'
For 'there is none to judge' is said when He who truly is disregards judging, since apart from Him who judges, there is none to plead our cause against the adversary. Nor yet is it without judgement that judgement is deferred, because while blessed Job was saying these things, both the merits of the holy man and the punishment of the adversary were growing. This very deferring of judgement, then, belongs to the Judge. But it is one thing that God inwardly and justly ordains, another that the soul, worn down by outward scourges, longs for. Whence, still concerning the very pressure of the blows, he adds: