Job 42

1 Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

Then Job answered the LORD, and said:

2 “I know that you can do all things, that no purpose of yours can be stopped.

I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be withholden from Thee.

3 'Who is this who without knowledge conceals plans?' Indeed, I have spoken things that I did not understand, things too difficult for me to understand, which I did not know about.

Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

4 You said to me, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will ask you things, and you will tell me.'

Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak; I will demand of Thee, and declare Thou unto me.

5 I had heard about you by my ear's hearing, but now my eye sees you.

I had heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee;

6 So I despise myself; I repent in dust and ashes.”

Wherefore I abhor my words, and repent, seeing I am dust and ashes.

7 It came about that after he had said 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 what is right, as my servant Job has done.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: 'My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job hath.

8 Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer, so that I may not deal with you after your folly. You have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has done.”

Now therefore, take unto you seven bullocks 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 him will I accept, that I do not unto you aught unseemly; for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.'

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Yahweh had commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job.

10 When Job prayed for his friends, Yahweh restored his fortunes. Yahweh gave him twice as much as he had possessed before.

And the LORD changed the fortune of Job, when he prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11 Then all Job's brothers, and all his sisters, and all who knew him before, came to him and ate food with him in his house. They showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the disasters that Yahweh had brought upon him, and each of them gave Job a piece of silver and a ring of gold.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house; and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.

12 Yahweh blessed the final end of Job's life more than the first; he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14 He named the first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.

And 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 no women were found as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

16 After this, Job lived 140 years; he saw his sons and his sons' sons, up to four generations.

And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

17 Then Job died, being old and full of days.

So Job died, being old and full of days.