Tree of Life Version
Job 42:8
8So now, take for yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept Job’s prayer and not deal with you according to your folly because you have not spoken correctly about Me, like My servant Job.”
Job 42:8 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)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.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, 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, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”
Context of Job 42:8
6Therefore I despise myself, and repent on dust and ashes.” 7After Adonai had spoken these words to Job, Adonai said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken about Me what is right, like My servant Job has. So now, take for yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept Job’s prayer and not deal with you according to your folly because you have not spoken correctly about Me, like My servant Job.” 9So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what Adonai told them; and Adonai accepted Job’s prayer. 10So Adonai restored what Job had lost, after he prayed for his friends and Adonai doubled everything that Job had before.
Read all of Job 42Job 42:8 word by word
וְעַתָּ֡ה קְחֽוּ־לָכֶ֣ם שִׁבְעָֽה־פָרִים֩ וְשִׁבְעָ֨ה אֵילִ֜ים וּלְכ֣וּ׀ אֶל־עַבְדִּ֣י אִיּ֗וֹב וְהַעֲלִיתֶ֤ם עוֹלָה֙ בַּֽעַדְכֶ֔ם וְאִיּ֣וֹב עַבְדִּ֔י יִתְפַּלֵּ֖ל עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם כִּ֧י אִם־פָּנָ֣יו אֶשָּׂ֗א לְבִלְתִּ֞י עֲשׂ֤וֹת עִמָּכֶם֙ נְבָלָ֔ה כִּ֠י לֹ֣א דִבַּרְתֶּ֥ם אֵלַ֛י נְכוֹנָ֖ה כְּעַבְדִּ֥י אִיּֽוֹב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Therefore takeלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
- unto you now sevenשֶׁ֫בַעsheba‛ shib‛âh · sevenH7651
- bullocksפַּרpar pâr · bullockH6499
- ramsאַ֫יִל'ayil · ramH352
- and goיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
- to my servantעֶ֫בֶד‛ebed · servant/slaveH5650
- Jobאִיּוֹב'îyôb · JobH347
- and offer upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: offer upH5927
- for yourselves a burnt offeringעֹלָה‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh · burnt offeringH5930
- shall prayפָּלַלpâlal · to prayH6419
- for you: for himפָּנֶהpânîym · face: kindnessH6440
- will I acceptנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: kindnessH5375
- lest I dealעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
- follyנְבָלָהnebâlâh · follyH5039
- in that ye have not spokenדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
- rightכּוּןkûn · to establish: rightH3559
Cross-references for Job 42:8
- Job 1:5When the round of banquet days was completed, Job would send for them and consecrate them. He would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings, according to the number of them all. For Job said, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did everyday.
- Numbers 23:1Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
- 1 Chronicles 15:26Because God helped the Levites who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant of Adonai, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
- 2 Chronicles 29:21They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary and Judah, and he commanded the kohanim—the sons of Aaron—to offer them on the altar of Adonai.
- Ezekiel 45:23He will prepare a burnt offering to Adonai for the seven days of the feast—seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
- Hebrews 10:4for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
- Matthew 5:23“Therefore if you are presenting your offering upon the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
- Exodus 18:12Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, presented a burnt offering and sacrifices to God. Aaron also came along with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
- Genesis 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his female slaves so that they could bear children.
- Isaiah 60:14The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you, and all those who despised you will fall at the soles of your feet. They will call you the city of Adonai, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 14:11So Adonai said to me: “Do not pray for the good of this people.
- Jeremiah 15:1Then said Adonai to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul could not be toward this people. Cast them out of My presence, and let them go out!”
- Ezekiel 14:14Even if these three men—Noah, Daniel and Job—be in it, they would only deliver their own souls by their righteousness.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
- Hebrews 7:25Therefore He is also able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, always living to make intercession for them.
- James 5:14Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of Messiah’s community, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
- 1 John 5:6Messiah Yeshua is the One who came by water and blood—not by water only, but by water and blood. The Spirit is the One who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
Commentaries on Job 42:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Take - seven bullocks and seven rams - From this it appears that Job was considered a priest, not only in his own family but also for others. For his children he offered burnt-offerings, Job 1:5; and now he is to make the same kind of offerings, accompanied with intercession, in behalf of his three friends. This is a full proof of the innocence and integrity of Job: a more decided one could not be given, that the accusations of his friends, and their…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Therefore 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-9Verses 7-9 After the Lord had convinced and humbled Job, and brought him to repentance, he owned him, comforted him, and put honour upon him. The devil had undertaken to prove Job a hypocrite, and his three friends had condemned him as a wicked man; but if God say, Well done, thou good and faithful servant, it is of little consequence who says otherwise. Job's friends had wronged God, by making prosperity a mark of the true church, and affliction a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-9The LORD made Job the "mediator" that Job had hoped to find for himself and that Elihu wanted to be (9:33; 16:19–21; 19:25; 32:1–37:24). go to My servant Job: God wanted Job’s friends to make peace with Job before they offered their gifts (Matthew 5:23–24). My servant Job will pray for you: He had also prayed for his children (1:5; compare James 5:16; 1 John 5:16). When the LORD accepted Job’s prayer, it ironically fulfilled Eliphaz’s promise (Job…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. seven--(See Introduction). The number offered by the Gentile prophet (Nu 23:1). Job plainly lived before the legal priesthood, &c. The patriarchs acted as priests for their families; and sometimes as praying mediators (Ge 20:17), thus foreshadowing the true Mediator (1Ti 2:5), but sacrifice accompanies and is the groundwork on which the mediation rests. him--rather, "His person [face] only" (see on Job 22:30). The "person," must be first accepted…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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