John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:8
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks, and seven rams ,.... Creatures used in sacrifice before the giving of the Levitical law, Genesis 4:4 ; and the same number of the same creatures were offered by Balaam in the country of Moab, not far from where Job lived, nor at any great distance of time from his age, Numbers 23:1 ; and among the Gentiles in later times F17 "----Septem mactare juvencos", &c.; Virgil. Aeneid. 6. v. 38, 39. . And these were typical of Christ, being... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 42:7-9
Job, in his discourses, had complained very much of the censures of his friends and their hard usage of him, and had appealed to God as Judge between him and them, and thought it hard that judgment was not immediately given upon the appeal. While God was catechising Job out of the whirlwind one would have thought that he only was in the wrong, and that the cause would certainly go against him; but here, to our great surprise, we find it quite otherwise, and the definitive sentence given in... read more