"Go to My servant Job, and offer up yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant will pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has." Job 42:8b NKJ

In earlier verses, Job had expressed sorrow for his questioning the justice of God, for which God had rebuked him. Job's three friends could not accept the truth that Job's sufferings was not in any way related to sinful conduct. Job suffered because God and Satan were in a contest over whether or not he could maintain his integrity and faith in God in the midst of horrific, inexplicable suffering. His counselors were falsely accusing Job of sins he had not committed and mouthing pious words about God. They were wrong, and Job was right. Without his three friends bringing sacrifices for their sin and Job's prayers on their behalf, they would have perished. Pray for sincere, but misguided friends.