Job 42

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Job Submits Himself to the LORD

¹Then Job replied to the LORD:

¹And Job answered YHWH and said:

²“I know that You can do all things

and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

²“I know that You are able to do all things, and a plan from You cannot be thwarted.

³You asked, ‘Who is this

who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’^a

Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me to know.

³‘Who is this, concealing counsel without knowledge?’ So I have declared, and did not understand—things too wonderful for me, and I did not know.

⁴You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak.

I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’^a

⁴‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’

⁵My ears had heard of You,

but now my eyes have seen You.

⁵By the hearing of the ear I had heard of You, and now my eye has seen You.

⁶Therefore I despise myself,

and I repent in dust and ashes.”

⁶Upon thus I despise it, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

The LORD Rebukes Job’s Friends

⁷After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

⁷And it came to pass, after YHWH had spoken these words to Job, that YHWH said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is kindled against you, and against the two friends of yours, for you have not spoken of Me accurately as My servant Job has.

⁸So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

⁸And now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And Job My servant shall pray for you (for surely I will lift his face), so as not to deal with your folly, for you have not spoken of Me accurately, as My servant Job has.”

⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.

⁹Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according to what YHWH had spoken to them; and YHWH lifted up the face of Job.

The LORD Blesses Job

¹⁰After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

¹⁰And YHWH turned back the captivity of Job, in his praying for his friends; and YHWH added to all that was unto Job—to double.

¹¹All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver^a and a gold ring.

¹¹All his brothers, and all his sisters, and all the faces of those knowing him came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they nodded to him and comforted him over all the adversity that YHWH had brought upon him. And each man gave to him one kesitah, and each man one ring of gold.

¹²So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

¹²And YHWH blessed the latter of Job more than his first, and there were unto him fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

¹³And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

¹³And there were unto him seven sons and three daughters.

¹⁴He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

¹⁴And he called the name of the first Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.

¹⁵No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

¹⁵And there were not found women as beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the land; and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers.

¹⁶After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

¹⁶And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and the sons of his sons, four generations.

¹⁷And so Job died, old and full of years.

¹⁷And Job died, old and full of days.