Job 42

1 Then Job replied to the LORD:

And Job said in answer to the Lord,

2 “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.

3 You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

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

Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

5 My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.

6 Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

7 After 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.

And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

8 So 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.”

And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

9 So 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 request.

And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.

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

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

11 All 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 and a gold ring.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

12 So 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.

And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

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

And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;

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

And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

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

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

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

And Job came to his end, old and full of days.