Job 42:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Seven bullocks

Hebrews 10:4

Go

Matthew 5:23

Offer

Job 1:5

Exodus 18:12

My servant job shall

Him

Ephesians 1:6

Lest

Psalm 103:10

2 Timothy 4:14

Bible References

Seven bullocks

Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

When God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the Lord's covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. The king told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Lord.

And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.

Go

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

Offer

When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's customary practice.

Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

My servant job shall

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you; all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet. They will call you, 'The City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'

Then the Lord said to me, "Do not pray for good to come to these people!

Then the Lord said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!

Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign Lord.

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood -- not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan -- who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying -- Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

Him

So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job.

Then David took from her hand what she had brought to him. He said to her, "Go back to your home in peace. Be assured that I have listened to you and responded favorably."

For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them to your governor! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor?" asks the Lord who rules over all.

And a voice from heaven said, "This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight."

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

Lest

He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve.

Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.