Job 42:7-9

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 ¹as My servant Job has.

8 "Now therefore, take for yourselves ²seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a ³burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will ⁴pray for you. ⁵For 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.

Job 42:7-9 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.

Cross References

• 1. Job 40:3-5; Job 42:1-6
• 2. Numbers 23:1
• 3. Job 1:5
• 4. Genesis 20:17; James 5:16; 1 John 5:16
• 5. Job 22:30

Footnotes

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