The Lord Rebukes Job’s Friends: Job 42:7-9

October 15, 2023

The Lord Rebukes Job’s Friends

(Job 42:7-9)

Job prays for his three friends7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. 8 Therefore take to 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 you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

Bible Verse–2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Bible Verse–Revelation 21:1

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

Bible Verse–Psalm 138:3

In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.

Bible Verse–Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.

Bible Verse–Revelation 20:7

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

Bible Verse–Luke 24:47

And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

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