Job 42:7-8 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 42:7-17

Conclusion of the story. I. THE DIVINE JUSTIFICATION OF JOB . ( Job 42:7-10 .) The cure of the inward sickness of the sufferer's spirit is followed here, as we often see in the course of life, by outward health and happiness. 1 . The reproof of the friends. ( Job 42:7 .) Addressing Eliphaz, as their chief spokesman, Jehovah declares his displeasure that they have not spoken the truth concerning him. Not that they have spoken with wilful dishonesty, but that they have been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 42:7-17

The Divine vindication of Job. The poem ends in undimmed brightness. The great ends of suffering have been answered. Job has been put to the proof and tried, and he has been found faithful. God has permitted all the joy and light of his life to be wiped out. His faithful servant of whom it was said, "There is none like him in the earth," has been subjected to the severest tests; yet, according to the Divine assertion, he has spoken of God "the thing that is right." Now he who had appeared to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 42:8

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams . (On the early and widespread prevalence of the rite of sacrifice,-see the comment upon Job 1:5 .) (On the preference, for sacrificial purposes, of the number seven, see Le 23:18; Numbers 23:1 , Numbers 23:14 , Numbers 23:29 ; Numbers 28:11 , Numbers 28:19 , Numbers 28:27 ; Numbers 29:2 , Numbers 29:8 , Numbers 29:36 ; 1 Chronicles 15:26 , 2 Chronicles 29:21 ; Ezra 8:35 ; Ezekiel 45:23 , etc.) It is... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 42:7

And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job - Had the matter been left according to the record in Job 42:6, a wholly erroneous impression would have been made. Job was overwhelmed with the conviction of his guilt, and had nothing been said to his friends, the impression would have been that he was wholly in the wrong. It was important, therefore, and was indeed essential to the plan of the book, that the divine judgment should be pronounced on the conduct of his three... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 42:8

Therefore take unto you - Or, FOR yourselves.Seven bullocks and seven rams - The number “seven” was a common number in offering animals for sacrifice; see Leviticus 23:18; Numbers 29:32. It was not a number, however, confined at all to Jewish sacrifices, for we find that Balaam gave the direction to Balak, king of Moab, to prepare just this number for sacrifice. “And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams;” Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:29.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 42:7

Job 42:7. After the Lord had spoken these words unto Job Jehovah, having confounded all the false reasonings of Job, and sufficiently humbled his pride, now proceeds to the condemnation of the principle upon which his three friends had proceeded in all their speeches, which principle he declares not to be right. The Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite God addresses him, because he was the eldest of the three, had spoken first, and by his example had led the rest into the same mistake which... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 42:8

Job 42:8. Therefore take now seven bullocks, &c. To make an atonement for what you have said amiss. It seems they were each of them to bring seven bullocks and seven rams, which were to be wholly offered up to God as a burnt-offering; for before, the law of Moses, all sacrifices, even those of atonement, appear to have been wholly burned, and therefore were called burnt-offerings. They thought, doubtless, that they had spoken wonderfully well, and had done a righteous act in pleading... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 42:7-17

God exalts Job (42:7-17)The three friends, in spite of the truths mixed in with their speeches, are now declared wrong. Job, in spite of his rash speech and irreverent protest, is now declared right. In accusing Job of great sin, the three friends had not spoken the truth, whereas Job, in claiming to be upright and not guilty of great sin, is now proved to be truthful. The friends’ theory that suffering is always the result of personal sin is proved wrong, whereas Job’s desire for a just God is... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 42:7

these words: i.e. ch. Job 38:1 -- Job 41:34 . not spoken of Me the thing that is right. We have, therefore, an inspired record of what they said; but all they said was not inspired, and cannot be quoted as the Word of Jehovah. as My servant Job hath: i.e. in Job 42:1-6 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 42:8

seven. See App-10 . burnt offering. Hebrew. 'olah . App-43 . See App-15 . him = his face: face being put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6 , for the whole person. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 42:7-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 42:7-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 42:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 42:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 42:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 42:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 42:8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 42:7-17

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 42:7

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 42:8

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