Holy Scripture

Job 42:7

A church father on this verse
“But after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, He said to Eliphaz the Themanite, My anger is kindled against thee and thy two friends, because ye have not spoken before Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job. 9. O Lord, the sentence of Thy judgment declares how much our blindness is at variance with the li…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXV

Source: Septuagint

Original

7And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: For ye have not said anything true before me, As my servant Job has.

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5I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; But now mine eye has seen thee.

6Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: And I esteem myself dust and ashes.

— Job 42:7 —

8Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, And go to my servant Job, And he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, For I will only accept him: For but for his sake, I would have destroyed you, For ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

9So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Minaean, Went and did as the Lord commanded them: And he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

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