Job 42:1-9

Job's Confession

1 Then Job answered the LORD and said,

2 "I know that ¹You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

3 'Who is this that ²hides counsel without knowledge?' "Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things ³too wonderful for me, which I did not know."

4 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ⁴ask You, and You instruct me.'

5 "I have ⁵heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my ⁶eye sees You;

6 Therefore * I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes."

God Displeased with Job's Friends

7 It came about after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right ⁷as My servant Job has.

8 "Now therefore, take for yourselves ⁸seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a ⁹burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will ¹⁰pray for you. ¹¹For 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.

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Job 42:1-9 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Genesis 18:14; Matthew 19:26
2. Job 38:2
3. Psalms 40:5; Psalms 131:1; Psalms 139:6
4. Job 38:3; Job 40:7
5. Job 26:14; Romans 10:17
6. Isaiah 6:5; Ephesians 1:17, 18
7. Job 40:3-5; Job 42:1-6
8. Numbers 23:1
9. Job 1:5
10. Genesis 20:17; James 5:16; 1 John 5:16
11. Job 22:30

Footnotes 2

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