Jobs 42

1 Da svarte Job Herren og sa:

Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

2 Jeg vet at du kan alt, og at ingen tanke er umulig å utføre for dig.

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

3 Hvem er den som vil formørke ditt råd i uforstand? Derfor må jeg si: Jeg har talt om det jeg ikke forstod, om det som var mig for underlig, og som jeg ikke skjønte.

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?

4 Men hør nu, så vil jeg tale! Jeg vil spørre dig, og du skal lære mig.

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

5 Bare hvad ryktet meldte, hadde jeg hørt om dig; men nu har mitt øie sett dig.

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

6 Derfor kaller jeg alt tilbake og angrer i støv og aske.

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

7 Da Herren hadde talt disse ord til Job, sa han til Elifas fra Teman: Min vrede er optendt mot dig og dine to venner; for I har ikke talt rett om mig, som min tjener Job.

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].

8 Ta derfor syv okser og syv værer og gå til min tjener Job og ofre dem som brennoffer for eder! Og min tjener Job skal bede for eder; bare ham vil jeg bønnhøre, så jeg ikke gjør med eder efter eders uforstand; for I har ikke talt rett om mig, som min tjener Job.

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.

9 Så gikk Elifas fra Teman og Bildad fra Suah og Sofar fra Na'ama og gjorde som Herren hadde talt til dem; og Herren bønnhørte Job.

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.

10 Og Herren gjorde ende på Jobs ulykke, da han bad for sine venner; og Herren øket alt det Job hadde hatt, til det dobbelte.

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.

11 Og alle hans brødre kom til ham, og alle hans søstre og alle som hadde kjent ham før, og de åt med ham i hans hus og viste ham medynk og trøstet ham for all den ulykke Herren hadde latt komme over ham; og de gav ham hver en kesitte og hver en gullring.

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].

12 Og Herren velsignet Jobs siste dager mere enn hans første, og han fikk fjorten tusen får og seks tusen kameler og tusen par okser og tusen aseninner.

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.

13 Og han fikk syv sønner og tre døtre.

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

14 Den ene datter kalte han Jemima, den annen Kesia og den tredje Keren-Happuk.

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

15 Så fagre kvinner som Jobs døtre fantes ikke i hele landet; og deres far gav dem arv blandt deres brødre.

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.

16 Derefter levde Job hundre og firti år, og han så sine barn og barnebarn i fjerde ledd.

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.

17 Og Job døde, gammel og mett av dager.

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