“Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?”
Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times, extending the depiction of the wicked's spiritual condition by asserting that the godless neither delights in God nor maintains the continuous prayer relationship that characterizes the righteous. The rhetorical questions imply that the wicked have no ongoing relationship with God upon which they might draw in extremity. The reference to calling at all times emphasizes that righteousness involves continuous address to God, habitual prayer and communion that the wicked neither practice nor can suddenly activate when desperate. The contrast between the wicked's spiritual isolation and the righteous person's relationship with God becomes the foundation for understanding different outcomes in extremity.
Church Fathers on Job 27:10
Or will he be able to delight himself in the Almighty? For he that is overcome by the love of earthly things, in no degree delights himself in God. The soul indeed can never exist without its delight, for it delights itself either in things below or in things above, and in proportion as it is employed with higher devotion towards those above, it grows deadened with the greater loathing towards those below, and as it glows with a keener interest for those below, it cools in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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