Albert Barnes Commentary Job 22:26

"For then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, And shalt lift up thy face unto God." — Job 22:26 (ASV)

Shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty - Instead of complaining of him as you now do, you would then find calm enjoyment in contemplating his character and his moral government. This is a correct account of the effects of reconciliation.

He who becomes truly “acquainted” with God has pleasure in his existence and attributes, in his law and administration. No longer disposed to complain, he confides in him when he is afflicted, flees to him when he is persecuted, seeks him in the day of prosperity, prefers him to all that this world can give, and finds his supreme joys in turning away from all created good to hold communion with the Uncreated One.

And shalt lift up thy face unto God - An emblem of prosperity, happiness, and conscious innocence. We hang our face down when we are conscious of guilt; we bow the head in adversity. When conscious of uprightness, when blessed with prosperity, and when we have evidence that we are the children of God, we look up toward heaven. This was the natural condition of human beings—made to look upward, while all other animals look groveling on the earth. So Milton describes the creation of man:

There was still lacking the master-work, the end
Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone
And brute as other creatures, but endowed
With sanctity of reason, might erect
His stature, and upright with front serene
Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from there
Magnanimous to correspond with heaven,
But grateful to acknowledge from where his good
Directed in devotion, to adore
And worship God supreme, who made him chief
Of all his works.

Paradise Lost, B. vii.

The classical reader will instantly recollect the description in Ovid:

Pronaque cum spectent animalia caetera terram;
Os homini sublime dedit; coelumque tueri
Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.

Meta. 1:84.