8Therefore 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.
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And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-9)Job, in his discourses, had complained very much of the censures of his friends and their hard usage of him, and had appealed to God as Judge between him and them, and thought it hard that judgment was not immediately given upon the appeal. While God was catechising Job out of the whirlwind one would have thought that he only was in the wrong, and that the cause would certainly go against him; but…
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