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.
God cleared Job's righteousness because he held it fast and would not let it go. The righteous may have their innocence clouded by affliction, harsh judgment from men, and their own frailties, yet in due time these clouds blow away and God brings forth their righteousness as the light. Judge nothing before the time.
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Commenting on Job 42:7-9
So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went,.... Having taken the above creatures for sacrifice, as directed, they went to Job with them; and did according as the Lord commanded them; offered them by Job for a burnt offering, and desired him to pray for them.
God rebuked the three friends because they spoke falsely to justify their unkindness, using wrong arguments to defend themselves. Job had denied their theory that calamity always proves peculiar guilt, and he was right about them, though he fell into his own extreme by almost denying all guilt, which he has now repented of.
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Commenting on Job 42:7-17