Job 42

1 Then Job responded to Yahweh, and said: —

Then Job answered the Lord.

2 I know that, all things, thou canst do, and that no purpose can be withholden from thee.

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

3 Who is it that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I declared, but not understood, things too wonderful for me, which I could 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 Hear thou, I pray thee, and, I, will speak, I will ask thee, and inform thou me.

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, had I heard thee, but, now, mine own eye, hath seen thee.

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

6 For this cause, I tremble and repent, on 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 Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, 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 Now, therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go unto my servant Job, and ye shall offer up an ascending-sacrifice in your own behalf, and, Job my servant, shall pray over you, —for, him, will I accept, that I may not deal out to you disgrace, because ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, 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 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, —and Yahweh 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 And, Yahweh himself, turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed in behalf of his friends, —and Yahweh increased all that Job had possessed, unto twice as much.

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 unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they did eat bread with him in his house, —and shewed sympathy with him and comforted him, over all the calamity which Yahweh had brought upon him, —and they gave him, every one a weight of money, and every one, a 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, Yahweh, blessed the latter end of Job, more than his beginning, —and so he came to have 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 And he came to have seven sons, and three daughters;

Job also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 and he called 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 were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land, —and their father gave them an inheritance, in the midst of their brethren.

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, a hundred and forty years, —and saw his sons and his sons’ sons, four generations.

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

17 So Job died, old and satisfied with days.

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