Job 42

1 Then Job replied to the LORD:

Then Job answered Jehovah, and said:

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

I know that thou canst do every thing, And that no purpose of thine can be hindered.

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 he that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Thus have I uttered what I understood not; Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not:

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

Hear thou, then, I beseech thee, and I will speak! I will ask thee, and do thou instruct me!

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

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now hath mine eye seen thee.

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

Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.

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 when Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken concerning me that which is right, as hath my servant Job.

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.”

Take ye, therefore, seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a burnt-offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you; for to him alone will I have regard; that I deal not with you according to your folly. For ye have not spoken concerning me that which is right, as hath my servant Job.”

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.

So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as Jehovah commanded them; and Jehovah had regard to Job.

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

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends, and Jehovah gave him twice as much as he had before.

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.

Then came to him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and ate bread with him in his house; and condoled with him, and comforted him over all the evil which Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money [[a kesita]], and every one a ring of gold.

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.

Thus Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

He had also seven sons, and three daughters.

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

And he called the name of the first Jemima, of the second Kezia, and of the third Kerenhappuch.

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 in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.

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

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

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

Then Job died, being old and satisfied with days.