Life is filed with meaning and purpose again. The sounds of singing, and laughter are heard without the accompanying guilt that somehow this isn't right. There is no guarantee, this side of eternity, that Job's pattern will be anyone else's. But for many, the demand is less arduous. God steps in and changes things.
Life becomes bearable again.
Thoughts interrupted by the sound of other children playing at his feet. It is not heaven itself, of course, for this world is upside down. But it is a foretaste of it, and the last verse which speaks of Job's death, is for Job, only the beginning of an eternity with God. Yes, in that he understands without the limitations of sin and without the purposes which would have made such knowledge difficult to continue. We learn lessons through experience as much as anything else.