Job 42:7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
In the previous two chapters, God and Job had quite a discussion, with the Lord clarifying areas where Job didn't get things quite right. But before He restores Job and gives him a life even better than before, He turns to Job's three "friends." Not only had they tended to self-righteousness and failed to be good friends; they had misrepresented God. We tend to take too lightly this strong phrase we find a number of times in scripture: "My anger burns against you." Those are not mild words. Do we misrepresent God at times? Do we make Him angry and ignore it? Are there ways we have failed to let people see how Good God really is?
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