Job 42

1Then Job answered Yahweh:

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

3You asked, ‘Who is this who obscures counsel without knowledge?’ So I have spoken of what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

4You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will inform me.’

5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.

6Therefore I reject what I said, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

7After Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

8So now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept him and not deal with you as your folly deserves, for you have not spoken what is right about me, as my servant Job has.”

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

10Yahweh restored Job’s fortunes when he prayed for his friends, and Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11Then all his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came to him and ate a meal with him in his house. They showed him sympathy and comforted him over all the trouble Yahweh had brought on him, and each of them gave him a kesitah and a gold ring.

12Yahweh blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

13He also had seven sons and three daughters.

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

15In all the land there were no women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.

16After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.

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