איוב 42

1 ויען איוב את-יהוה ויאמר

Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

2 ידעת (ידעתי) כי-כל תוכל ולא-יבצר ממך מזמה

I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.

3 מי זה מעלים עצה-- בלי-דעת לכן הגדתי ולא אבין נפלאות ממני ולא אדע

For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

4 שמע-נא ואנכי אדבר אשאלך והודיעני

But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.

5 לשמע-אזן שמעתיך ועתה עיני ראתך

I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you.

6

Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

7

And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].

8

Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

9

So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

10

And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.

11

And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].

12

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

13

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

14

And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.

15

And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance amongst their brethren.

16

And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

17

And Job died, an old man and full of days.