Job 42:8
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Study Note
Study Note
God's instruction to Eliphaz — to take seven bulls and seven rams and go to 'my servant Job' for a burnt offering, 'for him will I accept' — reverses the entire dynamic of the dialogue section of Job. The three friends who spoke 'the thing that is right' according to their theology are in fact wrong; Job who argued passionately against their framework is declared to have 'spoken of me what is right.' The intercession of Job (42:10) — praying for the very friends who condemned him — is the climactic act of the restoration, revealing that the one who suffered unjustly becomes the mediator of grace for others. This pattern of suffering-servant-as-intercessor anticipates Isaiah 53:12 and the Hebrews portrait of Christ as the high priest who prays for those who opposed him.
Other Translations
Now therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.
And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Cross References
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