Job 42:8

6 Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s request.

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
KJV
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.
WEB
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls 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 I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
ASV
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.
DARBY
And now, take for yourselves 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, for ye have not spoken of me rightly, like my servant Job.
BLB
And now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And Job My servant shall pray for you⁺ (for surely I will lift his face), so as not to deal with your⁺ folly, for you⁺ have not spoken of Me accurately, as My servant Job [has].”
ÅB
Ta derfor syv okser og syv værer og gå til min tjener Job og ofre dem som brennoffer for dere! Og min tjener Job skal be for dere; bare ham vil jeg bønnhøre, så jeg ikke gjør med dere etter deres uforstand; for dere har ikke talt rett om meg, som min tjener Job.
OTB
Nå ta syv okser og syv værer og gå til min tjener Job og ofre et brennoffer for dere selv. Min tjener Job skal be for dere, og jeg vil akseptere hans bønn og ikke behandle dere etter deres dårskap, fordi dere ikke har talt det rette om meg, slik som min tjener Job har."
B1930
Ta derfor syv okser og syv værer og gå til min tjener Job og ofre dem som brennoffer for eder! Og min tjener Job skal bede for eder; bare ham vil jeg bønnhøre, så jeg ikke gjør med eder efter eders uforstand; for I har ikke talt rett om mig, som min tjener Job.

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Cross references

  • Numbers 23:1

    Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

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  • James 5:16

    Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

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  • Psalms 103:10

    He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

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  • Genesis 20:17

    Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—

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  • 1 Chronicles 15:26

    And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

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  • Job 22:30

    He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

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  • Ezekiel 14:14

    then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

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  • James 5:14

    Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

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