Job 42

1 Then Job answered the LORD,

Then Job answered the Lord.

2 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

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

3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did 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 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer 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 heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

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

6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

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

7 It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, 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 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, 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 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted 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 The LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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

11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had permitted on him. And each of them gave him a kesitah 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 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a 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 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

Job also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 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 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. 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 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.

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

17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

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