Jobs 42
1 Da svarte Job Herren og sa:
Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
2 Jeg vet at du kan alt, og at ingen tanke er umulig å utføre for dig.
I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.
3 Hvem er den som vil formørke ditt råd i uforstand? Derfor må jeg si: Jeg har talt om det jeg ikke forstod, om det som var mig for underlig, og som jeg ikke skjønte.
So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge.
4 Men hør nu, så vil jeg tale! Jeg vil spørre dig, og du skal lære mig.
Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
5 Bare hvad ryktet meldte, hadde jeg hørt om dig; men nu har mitt øie sett dig.
By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
6 Derfor kaller jeg alt tilbake og angrer i støv og aske.
Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
7 Da Herren hadde talt disse ord til Job, sa han til Elifas fra Teman: Min vrede er optendt mot dig og dine to venner; for I har ikke talt rett om mig, som min tjener Job.
But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.
8 Ta derfor syv okser og syv værer og gå til min tjener Job og ofre dem som brennoffer for eder! Og min tjener Job skal bede for eder; bare ham vil jeg bønnhøre, så jeg ikke gjør med eder efter eders uforstand; for I har ikke talt rett om mig, som min tjener Job.
Therefore, have seven bulls and seven rams brought to you, and go to my servant Job, and offer these as a holocaust for yourselves. But also, my servant Job will pray for you; I will accept his face, so that foolishness will not be imputed to you. For you have not been speaking correctly about me, as my servant Job has done.
9 Så gikk Elifas fra Teman og Bildad fra Suah og Sofar fra Na'ama og gjorde som Herren hadde talt til dem; og Herren bønnhørte Job.
So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite departed, and they did just as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.
10 Og Herren gjorde ende på Jobs ulykke, da han bad for sine venner; og Herren øket alt det Job hadde hatt, til det dobbelte.
Likewise, the Lord was moved by the repentance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave to Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Og alle hans brødre kom til ham, og alle hans søstre og alle som hadde kjent ham før, og de åt med ham i hans hus og viste ham medynk og trøstet ham for all den ulykke Herren hadde latt komme over ham; og de gav ham hver en kesitte og hver en gullring.
Yet all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and everyone who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They also shook their heads over him and comforted him, because of all the bad things that God had inflicted on him. And each one of them gave him one female sheep, and one earring of gold.
12 Og Herren velsignet Jobs siste dager mere enn hans første, og han fikk fjorten tusen får og seks tusen kameler og tusen par okser og tusen aseninner.
And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.
13 Og han fikk syv sønner og tre døtre.
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
14 Den ene datter kalte han Jemima, den annen Kesia og den tredje Keren-Happuk.
And he called the name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics.
15 Så fagre kvinner som Jobs døtre fantes ikke i hele landet; og deres far gav dem arv blandt deres brødre.
And, in the whole world, there were not found women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. And so their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 Derefter levde Job hundre og firti år, og han så sine barn og barnebarn i fjerde ledd.
But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation,
17 Og Job døde, gammel og mett av dager.
and he died an old man and full of days.
