Job 42:8-10

8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.

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

• 1. Numbers 23:1,29; Ezekiel 45:23
• 2. Job 1:8
• 3. S Genesis 8:20; Job 1:5
• 4. Genesis 20:17; James 5:15-16; 1 John 5:16
• 5. Genesis 20:7; Job 22:30
• 6. S ver 7
• 7. Job 2:11
• 8. S Genesis 19:21; S Genesis 20:17; Ezekiel 14:14
• 9. Deuteronomy 30:3; Psalms 14:7
• 10. S Job 1:3; Psalms 85:1-3; Psalms 126:5-6; Philippians 2:8-9; James 5:11