The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Job 42
1 Then Job answered Yahweh:
2 “I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be
restrained.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel
without knowledge?there fore I have uttered that which I
didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I
didn’t know.
4 You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you will answer me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the
ear, but now my eye sees you.
6 Therefore I abhor myself,
and repent in dust and ashes.”
7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken
these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz
the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against
you, and against your two friends; for you
have not spoken of me the thing that is
right, as my servant Job has.
8 Now therefore, take to yourselves
seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a
burnt offering; and my servant Job shall
pray for you, for I will accept him, that I
not deal with you according to your folly.
For you have not spoken of me the thing
that is right, as my servant Job has.”
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the
Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went
and did what Yahweh commanded them,
and Yahweh accepted Job.
10 Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity
when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh
gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then all his brothers, all his sisters,
and all those who had been of his acquaintance before,
came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted
him, and consoled him concerning all the
evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone
also gave him a piece of money,†
and everyone a ring of gold.
12 SoYahwehblessed the latter end ofJob
more than his beginning. He had fourteen
thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one
thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand
female donkeys.
13 He had also seven sons and three
daughters.
14 He called the name of the first,
Jemimah; and the name of the second,
Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren
Happuch.
15 In all the land were no women found
so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their
father gave them an inheritance among
their brothers.
16 After this Job lived one hundred forty
years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons,
to four generations.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.