Job 42:8-10

8 "Now therefore, take for yourselves 1seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a 2burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will 3pray for you. 4For I will accept * him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has."
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted * Job.

God Restores Job's Fortunes

10 The LORD 5restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the LORD increased all that Job had twofold.

Job 42:8-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 42

This chapter contains Job's answer to the last speech of the Lord's, in which he acknowledges his omnipotence, and his certain performance of his purposes and pleasure; owns his own folly and ignorance, and confesses his sins; for which he abhorred himself, and of which he repented, Job 42:1-6; it also gives an account of the Lord's decision of the controversy between Job and his friends, blaming them and commending him above them; and ordered them to take sacrifices and go to Job and offer them, who should pray for them and be accepted, which was done, Job 42:7-9; and it closes with a relation of the great prosperity Job was restored unto, in which he lived and died, Job 42:10-17.

Cross References 5

  • 1. Numbers 23:1
  • 2. Job 1:5
  • 3. Genesis 20:17; James 5:16; 1 John 5:16
  • 4. Job 22:30
  • 5. Deuteronomy 30:3; Job 1:2, 3; Psalms 14:7; Psalms 85:1-3; Psalms 126:1-6

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Lit "lift up his face"
  • [b]. Lit "lifted up the face of"
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