Job 42

¹Then Job answered the Lord and said :

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

³Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge ? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand , too wonderful for me, which I did not know .

⁴Hear , and I will speak ; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

⁵I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear , but now my eye sees you;

⁶therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes .

⁷After the Lord had spoken these words to Job , the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite : My anger burns against you and against your two friends , for you have not spoken of me what is right , as my servant Job has.

⁸Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly . For you have not spoken of me what is right , as my servant Job has.

⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer .

¹⁰And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job , when he had prayed for his friends . And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before .

¹¹Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before , and ate bread with him in his house . And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money a ring of gold .

¹²And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning . And he had 14,000 sheep , 6,000 camels , 1,000 yoke of oxen , and 1,000 female donkeys .

¹³He had also seven sons and three daughters .

¹⁴And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah , and the name of the second Keziah , and the name of the third Keren-happuch .

¹⁵And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters . And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers .

¹⁶And after this Job lived 140 years , and saw his sons , and his sons ’ sons , four generations .

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