Job 42

1 Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

2 “I know that you can do all things, that no purpose of yours can be stopped.

I know that you can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from you.

3 'Who is this who without knowledge conceals plans?' Indeed, I have spoken things that I did not understand, things too difficult for me to understand, which I did not know about.

Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

4 You said to me, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will ask you things, and you will tell me.'

Hear, I plead to you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.

5 I had heard about you by my ear's hearing, but now my eye sees you.

I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye sees you.

6 So I despise myself; I repent in dust and ashes.”

Wherefore I detest myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

7 It came about that after he had said these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for all of you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

8 Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer, so that I may not deal with you after your folly. You have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has done.”

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that all of you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Yahweh had commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

10 When Job prayed for his friends, Yahweh restored his fortunes. Yahweh gave him twice as much as he had possessed before.

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11 Then all Job's brothers, and all his sisters, and all who knew him before, came to him and ate food with him in his house. They showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the disasters that Yahweh had brought upon him, and each of them gave Job a piece of silver and a ring of gold.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

12 Yahweh blessed the final end of Job's life more than the first; he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14 He named the first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.

15 In all the land no women were found as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

16 After this, Job lived 140 years; he saw his sons and his sons' sons, up to four generations.

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

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

So Job died, being old and full of days.