Job 42

CHAPTER 42

Job Repents in Dust and Ashes

¹Then Job answered Yahweh 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 marvelous for me, which I did not know.

⁴‘Hear, now, and I will speak;

I will ^aask You, and You make me know.’

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

But now my ^beye sees You;

⁶Therefore I reject myself,

And I repent in dust and ashes.”

Yahweh’s Anger Towards Job’s Friends

⁷Now it happened after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, that Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger burns against you and against your two friends because you have not spoken of Me what is right ^aas My servant Job has.

⁸“So now, 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.”

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

Yahweh Restores Job’s Fortunes

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

¹¹Then 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 calamity that Yahweh had brought on him. And each one gave him one ¹qesitah, and each a ring of gold.

^12aAnd Yahweh blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; ^band he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 pairs of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

^13aHe also had seven sons and three daughters.

¹⁴And he named the first Jemimah and the second Keziah and the third Keren-happuch.

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

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

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