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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Job 42:8

seven—(See Introduction). The number offered by the Gentile prophet (Numbers 23:1). Job plainly lived before the legal priesthood, etc. The patriarchs acted as priests for their families; and sometimes as praying mediators (Genesis 20:17), thus foreshadowing the true Mediator (I Timothy 2:5), but sacrifice accompanies and is the groundwork on which the mediation rests.

him—rather, "His person [face] only" (see on Job 22:30). The "person," must be first accepted, before God can accept his offering and work (Genesis 4:4); that can be only through Jesus Christ.

folly—impiety (Job 1:22; Job 2:10).

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 42:8:

Job 16:21
Job 22:30
Job 42:7

 

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