Chapter 42

Job’s Confession

1 Then Job answered the Lord and said,

2 “I know that aYou can do all things,

And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

3 ‘Who is this that ahides counsel without knowledge?’

“Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,

Things btoo wonderful for me, which I did not know.”

4 ‘Hear, now, and I will speak;

I will aask You, and You instruct me.’

5 “I have aheard of You by the hearing of the ear;

But now my beye sees You;

6 Therefore I retract,

And I repent in dust and ashes.”

God Displeased with Job’s Friends

7 It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right aas My servant Job has.

8 “Now therefore, take for yourselves aseven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a bburnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will cpray for you. dFor I will 1accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord told them; and the Lord 1accepted Job.

God Restores Job’s Fortunes

10 The Lord arestored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.

11 Then all his abrothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they bconsoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one 1piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

12 aThe Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; band he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

13 aHe had seven sons and three daughters.

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

15 In all the land no women were found so fair as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

16 After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

17 aAnd Job died, an old man and full of days.

THE PSALMS

The following expressions occur often in the Psalms:

Selah May mean Pause, Crescendo or Musical Interlude

Maskil Possibly, Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm

Mikhtam Possibly, Epigrammatic Poem, or Atonement Psalm

Sheol The nether world

BOOK 1

PSALM 1

The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted.

1 How blessed is the man who adoes not walk in the bcounsel of the wicked,

Nor stand in the 1cpath of sinners,

Nor dsit in the seat of scoffers!

2 But his adelight is bin the law of the Lord,

And in His law he meditates cday and dnight.

3 He will be like aa tree firmly planted by 1streams of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season

And its 2leaf does not wither;

And 3in whatever he does, bhe prospers.

4 The wicked are not so,

But they are like achaff which the wind drives away.

5 Therefore athe wicked will not stand in the bjudgment,

Nor sinners in cthe assembly of the righteous.

6 For the Lord 1aknows the way of the righteous,

But the way of bthe wicked will perish.

PSALM 2

The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed.

1 Why are athe 1nations in an uproar

And the peoples bdevising a vain thing?

2 The akings of the earth take their stand

And the rulers take counsel together

bAgainst the Lord and against His 1cAnointed, saying,

3 “Let us atear their fetters apart

And cast away their cords from us!”

4 He who 1sits in the heavens alaughs,

The Lord bscoffs at them.

5 Then He will speak to them in His aanger

And bterrify them in His fury, saying,

6 “But as for Me, I have 1installed aMy King

Upon Zion, bMy holy mountain.”

7 “I will surely tell of the 1decree of the Lord:

He said to Me, ‘You are aMy Son,

Today I have begotten You.

8 ‘Ask of Me, and aI will surely give bthe 1nations as Your inheritance,

And the very cends of the earth as Your possession.

9 ‘You shall 1abreak them with a 2rod of iron,

You shall bshatter them like 3earthenware.’ ”

10 Now therefore, O kings, ashow discernment;

Take warning, O 1judges of the earth.

11 1Worship the Lord with 2areverence

And rejoice with btrembling.

12 1Do homage to athe Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,

For bHis wrath may 2soon be kindled.

How blessed are all who ctake refuge in Him!

PSALM 3

Morning Prayer of Trust in God.

A Psalm of David, when †he fled from Absalom his son.

1 O Lord, how amy adversaries have increased!

Many are rising up against me.

2 Many are saying 1of my soul,

“There is no 2adeliverance for him in God.”

3Selah.

3 But You, O Lord, are aa shield about me,

My bglory, and the One who clifts my head.

4 I was crying to the Lord with my voice,

And He aanswered me from bHis holy 1mountain.

Selah.

5 1I alay down and slept;

I awoke, for the Lord sustains me.

6 I will anot be afraid of ten thousands of people

Who have bset themselves against me round about.

7 aArise, O Lord; bsave me, O my God!

For You 1have csmitten all my enemies on the 2cheek;

You 3have dshattered the teeth of the wicked.

8 1aSalvation belongs to the Lord;

Your bblessing 2be upon Your people!

Selah.