< Job 42 >
1 Then Job answered the Lord.
Then Job answered Jehovah, and said:
2 “I know you can do anything. No one can prevent you doing what you want.
I know that thou canst do every thing, And that no purpose of thine can be hindered.
3 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.
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 told me, ‘Listen to me, I am going to speak. I am going to question you, and you must answer me.’
Hear thou, then, I beseech thee, and I will speak! I will ask thee, and do thou instruct me!
5 Before, I had only heard about you, but now I've seen you for myself.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now hath mine eye seen thee.
6 That is why I'm sorry for what I said, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.
7 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.
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 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.”
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 did what the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.
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 The Lord restored Job's prosperity when he prayed for his friends, and gave him twice as much as he had before.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Job also had seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seven sons, and three daughters.
14 Job called the first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.
And he called the name of the first Jemima, of the second Kezia, and of the third Kerenhappuch.
15 Nowhere in all the land were there women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and Job gave them the same inheritance as 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 Job lived 140 years after this, seeing his children, and grandchildren, in fact four generations.
And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
17 Then Job died at an old age, having lived a very full life.
Then Job died, being old and satisfied with days.