Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has."God has pronounced sentence on Job's ignorant friends. They said that He would not punish Job unless he had sinned. God has now personally repudiated that assumption, by saying that they were wrong. They now have to face the penalty for their poor counsel, with a significant sacrifice.
Interesting how Job, despite having been shown to be wrong himself, is the one who is made the intercessor for them. Job's error was in believing that he had a right to an answer. Even though God provided him one, he had no such right, and has now repented. He, therefore, is still the most righteous man on earth, and is therefore in a position to serve as priest for the others.
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