Job 42

1 And Job answers YHWH and says:

Then Job answered the Lord.

2 “You have known that [for] all things You are able, And no purpose is withheld from You.

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

3 [You said], Who [is] this hiding counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I have declared, and do not understand, Too wonderful for me, and I do not know.

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 Please hear, and I speak; [You said], I ask you, and you cause Me to know.

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

5 By the hearing of the ear I heard You, And now my eye has seen You.

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

6 Therefore I loathe [it], And I have sighed on dust and ashes.”

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

7 And it comes to pass after YHWH’s speaking these words to Job, that YHWH says to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger has burned against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken correctly concerning Me, 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 seven bullocks and seven rams for yourselves, and go to My servant Job, and you have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for yourselves; and Job My servant prays for you, for surely I accept his face, so as not to do folly with you, because you have not spoken correctly concerning Me, 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 And they go—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite—and do as YHWH has spoken to them; and YHWH accepts the face of 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 YHWH has turned [to] the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and YHWH adds [to] all that Job has—to double.

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 come to him, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the calamity that YHWH had brought on him, and they each gave to him one kesitah, and each one ring 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 YHWH has blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he has fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and one thousand pairs of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

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 has seven sons and three daughters;

Job also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 and he calls the name of the first Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, 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 have not been found women [as] beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father gives to them an inheritance in the midst of 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 lives after this one hundred and forty years, and sees his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations;

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

17 and Job dies, aged and satisfied [with] days.

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