Job 42:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸So I want you to go over to Job and offer seven bulls and seven goats on an altar as a sacrifice to please me.^[a] After this, Job will pray, and I will agree not to punish you for your foolishness.

⁹Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar obeyed the Lord, and he answered Job's prayer.

A Happy Ending

¹⁰^(A) After Job had prayed for his three friends, the Lord made Job twice as rich as he had been before.

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Footnotes

42.8 sacrifice to please me: These sacrifices have traditionally been called “whole burnt offerings” because the whole animal was burned on the altar. A main purpose of such sacrifices was to please the Lord with the smell of the sacrifice, and so in the CEV they are often called “sacrifices to please the Lord.”