Job 42

1 And Job said in answer to the Lord,

Then answered Job unto the Lord, and said,

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

I acknowledge that thou art able to do every thing, and that no deep plan of thine can be restrained.

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.

Who is he that dareth to conceal [thy] counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

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.

Oh do but hear [me], and I will indeed speak: I will ask of thee, and do thou inform me.

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

I had only heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye hath seen thee.

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

Therefore I reject [what I have said], and repent; because I am 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.

And it came to pass, after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Themanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job.

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.

And now take unto yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up a burnt-offering in your behalf; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him alone will I receive favorably, so as not to deal with you after your folly; because ye have not spoken of me properly, like my servant Job.

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.

Then went Eliphaz the Themanite and Bildad the Shuchite and Zophar the Na'amathite, and did in accordance with what the Lord had spoken to them: and the Lord received Job in favor.

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.

And the Lord brought back the captivity of Job, when he prayed in behalf of his friends; and the Lord increased all that Job had had twofold.

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.

And then came unto him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they condoled with him, and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and they gave him, every one, a kessitah, and every one an earring of gold.

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.

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

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

And he called the name of the first Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of 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.

And there were not found such handsome women as the daughters of Job in all the land; and their father gave them an inheritance among 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.

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

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

Then died Job, being old and full of days.