Job Chapter 42
1 Job answered the LORD:
2 “I know you can do anything
and nobody can thwart what you do.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that darkens my counsel with ignorance?’
So I admit I don’t understand;
these things are too awesome for me to look into.
4 You said, ‘Listen; I’ll talk;
I’ll ask; you instruct me.’
5 I’d only heard about you before,
but now I see you.
6 So I take back what I’ve said
and repent in dust and ashes.”
Job 42:1-6
7 After the LORD addressed Job, he told Eliphaz the Temanite,
“I’m aggravated with you and your two friends because you haven’t said about me what’s right like Job has. 8 So take 7 bulls and 7 rams to him and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. He’ll pray for you, and I’ll accept him so I won’t do to you what you deserve, because you haven’t said about me what’s right like he has.”
9 Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar did what the LORD said, and he accepted Job.
Job 42:7-9
10 When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and doubled what he had before. 11 Then his brothers, sisters, and acquaintances that knew him before, came to eat with him in his house. They consoled him for the misfortunes the LORD had let come on him. Each one gave him one piece of money and a gold ring. 12 The LORD blessed Job’s later life more than its beginning. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He had 7 sons and 3 daughters. 14 He named the firstf Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15 In the whole land there weren’t any women as beautiful as his daughters. Their father gave them an inheritance alongside their brothers. 16 After that, Job lived 140 years and saw his grandsons and great-grandsons, four generations. 17 He died an old man that had lived a full life.
Job 42:10-17
Version by Virgil Warren: christir.org