Job Replies to the Lord

42 Then Job replied to the Lord:

2 I h know that You can do anything

and no plan of Yours can be thwarted. i

3 You asked, “Who is this who conceals My counsel with ignorance?” j

Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me to k know. l

4 You said, “Listen now, and I will speak.

When I question m you, you will inform Me.”

5 I had heard rumors about You,

but now my eyes n have seen You.

6 Therefore I take back my words

and repent in dust and ashes. o

7 After the Lord had finished speaking p to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has. 8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you. q I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.” 9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

God Restores Job

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions. r 11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances s came to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a qesitah t u and a gold earring. v

12 So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch. w 15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

16 Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 Then Job died, old and full of days. x

Psalms

BOOK I

(Psalms 1–41)

Psalm 1

The Two Ways

1 How happy is the man

who does not follow a the advice of the wicked

or take b the path of sinners

or join a group c of mockers! d

2 Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,

and he meditates on it day and night. e

3 He is like a tree planted beside streams of water f

that bears its fruit in season g h

and whose leaf does not wither. i

Whatever he does prospers. j

4 The wicked are not like this;

instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away. k

5 Therefore the wicked will not survive l the judgment, m

and sinners will not be in the community of the righteous.

6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, n

but the way of the wicked leads to ruin. o

Psalm 2

Coronation of the Son

1 Why p do the nations rebel q r

and the peoples plot in vain? s

2 The kings of the earth take their stand, t

and the rulers conspire together

against the Lord and His Anointed One: u v

3 “Let us tear off their chains

and free ourselves from their restraints.” w x

4 The One enthroned y in heaven laughs;

the Lord ridicules them. z

5 Then He speaks to them in His anger

and terrifies them in His wrath: a

6 “I have consecrated My King b

on * Zion, My holy mountain.” c

7 I will declare the Lord’s decree:

He said to Me, “You are My Son; d

today I have become Your e Father. f

8 Ask of Me,

and I will make the nations Your g inheritance

and the ends of the earth Your h possession. i

9 You will break j them with a rod of iron;

You k will shatter them like pottery.” l m

10 So now, kings, be wise;

receive instruction, you judges of the earth.

11 Serve the Lord with reverential awe

and rejoice with trembling. n

12 Pay homage to o the Son or He p will be angry

and you will perish in your rebellion, q r

for His s anger may ignite at any moment. t

All those who take refuge in Him u are happy. v