Job 42

Job Replies to the Lord

42Then Job replied to the Lord:

²I ^hknow that You can do anything

and no plan of Yours can be thwarted. ⁱ

³You 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 ^kknow. ^l

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

When I question ^myou, you will inform Me.”

⁵I had heard rumors about You,

but now my eyes ⁿhave seen You.

⁶Therefore I take back my words

and repent in dust and ashes. ^o

⁷After the Lord had finished speaking ^pto 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. ⁸Now 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. ^qI 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.” ⁹Then 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

¹⁰After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions. ^r11All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances ^scame 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 ^tuand a gold earring. ^v

¹²So 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. ¹³He also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch. ^w15No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

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