Job 42

42Then Job answered the Lord.

²I know, Lord, that you are all-powerful;

that you can do everything you want.

^3*You ask how I dare question your wisdom

when I am so very ignorant.

I talked about things I did not understand,

about marvels too great for me to know.

^4*You told me to listen while you spoke

and to try to answer your questions.

⁵In the past I knew only what others had told me,

but now I have seen you with my own eyes. ⁶So I am ashamed of all I have said

and repent in dust and ashes.

Conclusion

⁷After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, as my servant Job did. ⁸Now take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and offer them as a sacrifice for yourselves. Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer and not disgrace you as you deserve. You did not speak the truth about me as he did.”

⁹Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar did what the Lord had told them to do, and the Lord answered Job’s prayer.

^10*Then, after Job had prayed for his three friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had had before. ¹¹All Job’s brothers and sisters and former friends came to visit him and feasted with him in his house. They expressed their sympathy and comforted him for all the troubles the Lord had brought on him. Each of them gave him some money and a gold ring.

¹²The Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life even more than he had blessed the first. Job owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 2,000 head of cattle, and 1,000 donkeys. ¹³He was the father of seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴He called the eldest daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the youngest Keren Happuch.^{e 15}There were no other women in the whole world as beautiful as Job’s daughters. Their father gave them a share of the inheritance along with their brothers.

¹⁶Job lived 140 years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. ¹⁷And then he died at a very great age.