約伯記 23:8 註釋：Rashi & Malbim

Behold...east it refers to the above (verse 3), “Would that I knew etc.”

Job complains that God is avoiding him though he had faithfully kept His commandments.²The Hebrew text has קדם - forward and אחור - backwards, but like the medieval commentators Rashi and Ibn Ezra, Malbim understands them, respectively, as east and west. Malbim adds:
The ancients imagined that the Divine Presence was in the west and that the host of the heavens all journeyed from east to west, on their way to giving homage before His Throne of Glory, which is situated there.

east as it is stated (Exod. 27: 13): “on the east side (קדמה), eastward.”

and to the west Heb. ואחור. Since the east is the front of the world (קדמה), the west is found to be the back of the world (אחור).