Job 42:7 BSB — MannaFest

Job 42:7

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

BSB

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ASV

And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

KJV

And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

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Commentary

4 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXV (604)

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 light of Thine uprightness. Behold, we know that in Thy judgment blessed Job is victorious, whom we believed to have sinned against Thee by his words.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Ye have not, &c. - This is not to be understood absolutely, but comparatively. Job was not so much to be blamed as they, because his opinion concerning the methods of God's providence, and the indifferency of its dispensations towards good and bad men was truer than theirs, which was, that God did always reward good men and punish sinners in this life.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job - Had the matter been left according to the record in Job 42:6, a wholly erroneous impression would have been made. Job was overwhelmed with the conviction of his guilt, and had nothing been said to his friends, the impression would have been that he was wholly in the wrong. It was important, therefore, and was indeed essential to the plan of the book, that the divine judgment should be pronounced on the conduct of his three friends.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֗י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
אַחַ֨ר	'a.Char	after	H310 →
דִּבֶּ֧ר	di.Ber	he had spoken	H1696 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַדְּבָרִ֥ים	ha.de.va.Rim	the words	H1697 →
הָאֵ֖לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אִיּ֑וֹב	'i.Yov	Job	H347 →
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אֱלִיפַ֣ז	'e.li.Faz	Eliphaz	H464 →
הַתֵּֽימָנִ֗י	ha.tei.ma.Ni	the Temanite	H8489 →
חָרָ֨ה	cha.Rah	it has burned	H2734 →
אַפִּ֤י	'a.Pi	anger my	H639 →
בְךָ֙	ve.Kha	on you
וּבִשְׁנֵ֣י	u.vish.Nei	and on [the] two	H8147 →
רֵעֶ֔יךָ	re.'Ei.kha	friends your	H7453 →
כִּ֠י	ki	for	H3588 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
דִבַּרְתֶּ֥ם	di.bar.Tem	you have spoken	H1696 →
אֵלַ֛י	'e.Lai	concerning me	H413 →
נְכוֹנָ֖ה	ne.kho.Nah	a reliable [thing]	H3559 →
כְּעַבְדִּ֥י	ke.'av.Di	like servant my	H5650 →
אִיּֽוֹב׃	'i.Yov	Job	H347 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 51:4
Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 12:13–14
  Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
- Luke 15:21
  The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
- Genesis 20:6
  Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did…
- Genesis 39:9
  No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin…
- Romans 3:4
  Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
Through
Job 4:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
leads to
- Job 3:1–2
  After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- Job 15:1
  Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- Job 6:1
  Then Job replied:

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Job