It’s the end of the story- spoiler alert if you haven’t read it 😉 and God restores Job’s life and makes Job’s friends and the townspeople give stuff to Job but first Job had to repent AND pray for his friends. I can imagine that Job didn’t necessarily want to pray for his friends who were so cruel during his weakest moments- but Job was faithful and obedient and did as the Lord asked. Sometimes God will want us to pray for people that we may not want to, but we must obey Him.
Job remained faithful to the Lord, no matter what his circumstances were and, in the end, the Lord was just and took care of Job (just like we all knew He would) but God did it in His way and on His timeline. God didn’t fit into the ideas of Eliphaz and the other, but that doesn’t matter. God doesn’t fit into any box we try to fit Him in and we have to be like Job and accept God and be faithful and obedient no matter what. Ultimately (maybe after death) the Lord will come through for us, because He has never failed us before, and He never will.
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