Job 42

1 Then answered Job unto the Lord, and said,

Then Job answered the Lord.

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

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

3 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

11 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.

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 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.

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 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

Job also had seven sons and three daughters.

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

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

15 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.

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 Job lived after this one hundred and forty years: and he 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 Then died Job, being old and full of days.

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