Job 42

1 Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

Then Job replied to the LORD:

2 I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.

“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

3 For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

4 But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.

You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’

5 I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you.

My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

6 Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

7 And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

8 Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

9 So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

So 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 request.

10 And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

11 And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].

All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

13 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.

He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

15 And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance amongst their brethren.

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

16 And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

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

And so Job died, old and full of years.