Job sent and sanctified them] He bid them prepare themselves by outward purifications, as fasting, abstinence, washing, Exodus 19:10. and above all, by internall and spirituall means, as prayer, mortification, good meditations, Genesis 35:2. repentance of their errours in their feasts, reconcilement to one another; that without uncleannesse they might be partakers of the action, and benefit of their fathers sacrifice offered for them. offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all] He offered for every one of his children an offering of reconciliation, which declared his religion toward God, and care of his children. See Leviticus 1:10. Job said] He thought in his heart. cursed God] In Hebrew it is, blessed God, which is here taken for cursing, as 1 King. 21. 10, 13. For in detestation of cursing, it is covered under the name of the contrary. He feared his sons had some irreverent thoughts concerning God in the heat and liberty of their feasting. continually] Heb. all the dayes. To wit, when the dayes of feasting at one of their houses were done, as in the beginning, of the verse appeareth.