Job 42
42
Job’s Repentance and Restoration
1Then Job answered the Lord and said:
2“I know that You #Gen. 18:14; (Matt. 19:26; Mark 10:27; 14:36; Luke 18:27)can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.
3You asked, #Job 38:2‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
#Ps. 40:5; 131:1; 139:6Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4Listen, please, and let me speak;
You said, #Job 38:3; 40:7‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’
5“I have #Job 26:14; (Rom. 10:17)heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.
6Therefore I #Ezra 9:6; Job 40:4abhor myself,
And repent in dust and ashes.”
7And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has. 8Now therefore, take for yourselves #Num. 23:1seven bulls and seven rams, #(Matt. 5:24)go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall #Gen. 20:17; (James 5:15, 16; 1 John 5:16)pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because 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 as the Lord commanded them; for the Lord had accepted Job. 10#Deut. 30:3; Ps. 14:7; 85:1–3; 126:1And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job #Is. 40:2twice as much as he had before. 11Then #Job 19:13all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.
12Now the Lord blessed #Job 1:10; 8:7; James 5:11the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had #Job 1:3fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. 13#Job 1:2He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. 15In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
16After this Job #Job 5:26; Prov. 3:16lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. 17So Job died, old and #Gen. 15:15; 25:8; Job 5:26full of days.
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Job 42
42
Job Speaks: I Admit That I Was Wrong
1Then Job answered the Lord,
2“I know that you can do everything
and that your plans are unstoppable.
3“⌞You said,⌟ ‘Who is this that belittles my advice
without having any knowledge ⌞about it⌟?’
Yes, I have stated things I didn’t understand,
things too mysterious for me to know.
4“⌞You said,⌟ ‘Listen now, and I will speak.
I will ask you, and you will teach me.’
5I had heard about you with my own ears,
but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
6That is why I take back what I said,
and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry.”
Job’s Life Is Restored
7After the Lord had said those things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz from Teman, “I’m very angry with you and your two friends because you didn’t speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done. 8So take seven young bulls and seven rams. Go to my servant Job, and make a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you. Then I will accept his prayer not to treat you as godless fools. After all, you didn’t speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done.”
9Then Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah, and Zophar of Naama went and did what the Lord had told them to do. And the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
10After Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored Job’s prosperity and gave him twice as much ⌞as he had before⌟. 11Then all his brothers and sisters and everyone who had previously known him came to him. They ate with him at his house, sympathized with him, and comforted him for all the evil the Lord had brought to him. Each one gave him some money and a gold ring.
12The Lord blessed the latter years of Job’s life more than the earlier years. He had 14,000 sheep and goats, 6,000 camels, 2,000 oxen, and 1,000 donkeys. 13He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14He named the first ⌞daughter⌟ Jemimah, the second Cassia, and the third Keren Happuch. 15Nowhere in the whole country could be found women who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters. Their father gave them and their brothers an inheritance.
16Job lived 140 years after this. He saw his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.#42:16 Or “grandchildren, four generations.” 17Then at a very old age, Job died.
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