What Does Job 42:9 Mean in the King James?
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 analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The LORD’s “acceptance” is a lifted face: favor restores Job to regard after others have contested him.
THE MEANING
The friends do what the LORD commands, and Job is received with favor. “Accepted” carries the picture of a face being lifted: the one under dispute is brought into regard, and his prayer is received. The verse holds together a human act of repair and the LORD’s favor.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Other people’s condemnation is not the final word over a person’s standing.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשָּׂא
wayyiśśāʾ
GROWS FROM
נשא
Lift, carry, bear.
“accepted” in this verse is wayyiśśāʾ. The Hebrew pictures the LORD “lifting the face of Job.” The same root can describe lifting and bearing, so acceptance here is more than a verdict: Job is raised into favor and personal regard.
ALSO GROWS
massa: Burden, load.
מַשָּׂא
This branch names what is carried; the root’s image of bearing gives “accepted” the texture of someone being lifted into regard.
nasi: Leader, prince; one raised up.
נָשִׂיא
A leader’s title carries the image of being lifted up, echoing the favor expressed when the LORD lifts Job’s face.
THE PATTERN
Favor is pictured as a face lifted toward another, turning acceptance into a visible act of regard.
The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.THE THREAD
And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.The Hebrew uses the same lifted-face idiom: “I have accepted thee” is nasa panim. Here favor grants Lot’s request; Job, too, is met with lifted regard.
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