Job 42

Job

42Then Job replied to the Lord:

²“I know that you can do all things;^d

no purpose of yours can be thwarted.^e

³You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’^f

Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me to know.^g

⁴“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;

I will question you,

and you shall answer me.’^h

⁵My ears had heard of youⁱ

but now my eyes have seen you.^j

⁶Therefore I despise myself^k

and repent^l in dust and ashes.”^m

Epilogue

⁷After the Lord had said these things to Jobⁿ, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends,^o because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.^{p 8}So now take seven bulls and seven rams^q and go to my servant Job^r and sacrifice a burnt offering^s for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer^t and not deal with you according to your folly.^u You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”^{v 9}So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite^w did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.^x

¹⁰After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes^y and gave him twice as much as he had before.^{z 11}All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before^a came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him,^b and each one gave him a piece of silver^a and a gold ring.

¹²The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. ¹³And he also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

¹⁶After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. ¹⁷And so Job died, an old man and full of years.^c