Job 42

1 And Job said in answer to the Lord,

Then Job answered the Lord.

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

“I know you can do anything. No one can prevent you doing what you want.

3 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.

You asked, ‘Who is this who questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?’ I was speaking about things I didn't understand—things too wonderful for me to know.

4 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.

You told me, ‘Listen to me, I am going to speak. I am going to question you, and you must answer me.’

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

Before, I had only heard about you, but now I've seen you for myself.

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

That is why I'm sorry for what I said, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

7 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.

After the Lord had finished speaking to Job he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends because you have not told the truth about me, as my servant Job did.

8 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.

So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job, and you shall offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray on your behalf and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your foolishness, because you have not told the truth about me, as my servant Job did.”

9 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.

So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.

10 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.

The Lord restored Job's prosperity when he prayed for his friends, and gave him twice as much as he had before.

11 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.

Then all his brothers and sisters and friends he'd previously known came and ate with him at his home. They showed him sympathy and comforted him because of all the trouble the Lord had caused him. Each one of them gave him money and a gold ring.

12 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.

The Lord blessed the last part of Job's life more than the first part. Now he owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

Job also had seven sons and three daughters.

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

Job called the first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.

15 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.

Nowhere in all the land were there women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and Job gave them the same inheritance as their brothers.

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

Job lived 140 years after this, seeing his children, and grandchildren, in fact four generations.

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

Then Job died at an old age, having lived a very full life.