Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 42:9

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

The Lord also accepted Job – Margin, as in Job 42:8, the face of. The meaning is, that he accepted his prayers and offerings in behalf of his friends.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Did according as the Lord commanded them; showing their repentance by their submission to God, and to Job for Gods sake, and by taking shame to themselves.

The Lord also accepted Job, both for his friends and for himself, as the next verse explains it.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

9. The forgiving spirit of Jobforeshadows the love of Jesus Christ and of Christians to enemies(Mat 5:44; Luk 23:34;Act 7:60; Act 16:24;Act 16:28; Act 16:30;Act 16:31).

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, [and] Zophar the Naamathite, went,…. Having taken the above creatures for sacrifice, as directed, they went to Job with them;

and did according as the Lord commanded them; offered them by Job for a burnt offering, and desired him to pray for them. This they did, both as to matter and manner, as the Lord ordered them; and they did it immediately, without consulting flesh and blood, the pride and other passions of their hearts; and they all united in it, and served the Lord with one consent, which showed them to be good men;

the Lord also accepted Job; the sacrifice he offered; perhaps by sending fire from heaven, which consumed the burnt offering: or “the face of Job”; he heard his prayer for his friends, and granted his request for them: or “the person of Job”, as Mr. Broughton renders it; Job in this was a type of Christ also, who is always heard in his intercession and mediation for his people. God has respect to his person, which always acceptable to him, and in whom he is well pleased; and he has respect to his offering and sacrifice, which is of a sweet smelling savour to him. And the persons of his people are accepted in him the Beloved, and all their services and sacrifices of prayer and praise, Mt 3:17. The Targum is,

“they did as the Word of the Lord spake unto them, and the Word of the Lord accepted the face of Job.”

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

9 The Eliphaz of Teman, and Bildad of Shuach, and Zophar of Naamah, went forth and did as Jehovah had said to them; and Jehovah accepted the person of Job.

Jehovah has now risen up as a witness for Job, the spiritual redemption is already accomplished; and all that is wanting is, that He who has acknowledged and testified to Job as His servant should also act outwardly and visibly, and in mercy show Himself the righteous One.

Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament

THE ACCEPTANCE OF JOB TAKES PLACE IN THE ACT OF OFFERING SACRIFICE IN BEHALF OF HIS FRIENDS, Job 42:9-10 a.

9. Accepted Job Literally, lifted up the face of Job, as in Job 42:8. Cocceius supposes that this acceptance was by some outward visible sign, perhaps in a mode similar to that in which Jerome conjectures God showed his respect unto Abel and his offering, by sending down fire to consume the sacrifices.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

Ver. 9. So Eliphaz the Temanite, &c. ] Here was resipiscentia ex fide constans, saith Brentius, the repentance of faith, the obedience also of faith readily yielded. Had not these been good and godly men they would have stuck at the cost of so great a sacrifice, they would also have scorned to have sought to Job, whom they had so much slighted, and to beg his prayers, of whom they had so ill deserved. But they had not so learned Christ. God, they saw well, was greatly offended and Job highly accepted; glad therefore were they by any good means to ingratiate, each of them saying to God for himself, as he did once to Caesar,

Iussa sequi tam velle mihi quam posse necesse est (Lucan) (Lucan).

Omne trahit secum Numinis ira malum (Ovid).

The Lord also accepted Job ] Whether he testified his good acceptance by consuming his sacrifice with fire from heaven is uncertain. It is enough for us to know that he showed himself reconciled unto them, and well pleased with Job’s prayer for them, and their own prayers joined no doubt with his, and proceeding from faith in the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ. And hitherto God’s decisive sentence, whereby all the strife was graciously ended, and all parties happily and heartily reconciled. What became of Satan, a chief actor in this tragedy, we read not; Victus enim abiit. And as God would not once call him to account, when he had beguiled our first parents, Gen 3:1-7 , because he meant him no mercy; so here he never mentioned him, as being judged already, and by Job bravely worsted and defeated. All that we find of him is, that his commisslon to vex Job any further was now taken away, for so it followeth,

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Job. Hebrew the face of Job, as in Job 42:8.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Job 42:9

Job 42:9

“So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as Jehovah commanded them: and Jehovah accepted Job.”

From this, it is evident that it was actually Job’s intercessory prayer that constituted the principal element in the procurement of their forgiveness. The value of a truly righteous man’s prayers upon behalf of others appears here as a glorious achievement. “The prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (Jas 5:16). “Job is thus a type of Christ, not merely in his undeserved sufferings, but also in his mediatorial intercession for his friends. Kelly also noted that, “Job here stands as a prefiguration of the Christian man in his acceptance of divine grace, and earlier, he had illustrated the deep need of all mankind for justification.

E.M. Zerr:

Job 42:8-9. These people were all living under the Patriarchal Dispensation in which the animal sacrifices composed God’s religious headquarters. The three friends had sinned by their speeches while Job had not. Therefore, not only did they need to offer a sacrifice and Job did not, but they had to do so in the presence of Job, who acted as a priest.

Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary

did: Job 34:31, Job 34:32, Isa 60:14, Mat 7:24, Joh 2:5, Act 9:6, Act 10:33, Heb 11:8

Job: Heb. the face of Job, Job 42:8, Job 22:27, Pro 3:11, Pro 3:12, Ecc 9:7

Reciprocal: Gen 19:21 – I Gen 20:17 – General Gen 32:20 – I will appease 2Sa 24:23 – The Lord 2Ch 30:18 – prayed Job 4:1 – Eliphaz Job 11:19 – many Job 15:1 – Eliphaz Job 20:1 – Zophar Job 33:26 – and he shall Jer 27:18 – let them Eze 14:14 – Job

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 42:9. So Eliphaz, &c., did as the Lord commanded Showing their repentance by their submission to God, and to Job for Gods sake, and by taking shame to themselves. The Lord also accepted Job Both for his friends and for himself, as the next verse explains it. And as Job prayed and offered sacrifice for those who had grieved and wounded his spirit, so Christ prayed and died for his persecutors, and ever lives making intercession for transgressors.

Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments