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So now take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves, and let my servant Job pray for you.[a] To him I will show favor, and not punish your folly, for you have not spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job.” Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had commanded them. The Lord showed favor to Job.

10 The Lord also restored the prosperity of Job, after he had prayed for his friends; the Lord even gave to Job twice[b] as much as he had before.

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Footnotes

  1. 42:8 An ironic touch: Job becomes the intercessor for his friends.
  2. 42:10 Twice: this is the fine for damage inflicted upon another; cf. Ex 22:3. The Lord pays up!