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Talmudic proverb based on Job 42:10 — source?

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I'm trying to locate the source for a rabbinic saying quoted in a Christian commentary on the book of Job by the Hebraist Franz Delitzsch. Here's the relevant bit of the passage:

The Talmud has borrowed from here the true proverb: כל־המתפלל בעד חברו נענה תחלה, i.e. he who prays for his fellow-men always finds acceptance for himself first of all.

The comment is attached to Job 42:10. The best I've been able to do with finding a source is Bava Kamma 92a:15, but the wording there seems a bit different.

This seems to be a very widely cited aphorism, if blog posts like this one are anything to go by.

If anyone could either confirm the source I turned up, or correct it with a better one, I would be exceedingly grateful!

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