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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
But the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. 35. We believe that these things have taken place historically, we hope that they are to take place mystically. For the latter end of Job is blessed more than his beginning, because as far as concerns the admission of the people of Israel, when the end of the present world is pressing on, the Lord consoles the pain of Holy Church by a manifold ingathering of souls. …
Thomas Aquinas
These were insufficient to restore him, but the Lord assisted him with his own hand that from these small things he might progress to greater ones, and so the text says, "But the Lord blessed the last days of Job," by lengthening them, "more than his first days," that is, more than his former prosperity. For he is "powerful to do more than we can ask or understand," (Eph. 3:20) as Ephesians says. …
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