Job 42
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Job Replies to the Lord
1Then Job replied to the Lord:
2I#42:2 Alt Hb tradition reads You know that you can do anything
and no plan of yours can be thwarted.#Gn 18:14; Jr 23:20; Mt 19:26
3You asked, “Who is this who conceals my counsel with ignorance?”#Jb 34:35; 35:16; 38:2
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wondrous for me to#42:3 Lit me, and I did not know.#Ps 40:5; 131:1; 139:6
4You said, “Listen now, and I will speak.
When I question#Jb 38:3; 40:7 you, you will inform me.”
5I had heard reports about you,
but now my eyes#Jb 19:27; Ps 123:1–2; 141:8 have seen you.
6Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them;
I am dust and ashes.#42:6 LXX reads I despise myself and melt; I consider myself dust and ashes#42:6 Lit I reject and I relent, concerning dust and ashes
7After the Lord had finished speaking#42:7 Lit speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you.#Gn 20:17; Nm 23:1; 1Jn 5:16 I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” 9Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
God Restores Job
10After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.#Ps 14:7; Is 40:2; Mt 5:44 11All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances#Jb 2:11; 19:13 came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver#42:11 Lit a qesitah; the value of this currency is unknown#Gn 33:19; Jos 24:32 and a gold earring.#Gn 24:22; 35:4; Hs 2:13
12So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. 13He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.#Ps 45:8; Sg 2:14; Jr 4:30 15No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.
16Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17Then Job died, old and full of days.#Gn 25:8; 35:29; 1Ch 29:28
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Job 42
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1Then Job answered the LORD.
Job
2I know, LORD, that you are all-powerful;
that you can do everything you want.
3 #
Job 38.2
You ask how I dare question your wisdom
when I am so very ignorant.
I talked about things I did not understand,
about marvels too great for me to know.
4 #
Job 38.3
You told me to listen while you spoke
and to try to answer your questions.
5In the past I knew only what others had told me,
but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
6So I am ashamed of all I have said
and repent in dust and ashes.
Conclusion
7After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, as my servant Job did. 8Now take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and offer them as a sacrifice for yourselves. Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer and not disgrace you as you deserve. You did not speak the truth about me as he did.”
9Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar did what the LORD had told them to do, and the LORD answered Job's prayer.
10 #
Job 1.1–3
Then, after Job had prayed for his three friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had had before. 11All Job's brothers and sisters and former friends came to visit him and feasted with him in his house. They expressed their sympathy and comforted him for all the troubles the LORD had brought on him. Each of them gave him some money and a gold ring.
12The LORD blessed the last part of Job's life even more than he had blessed the first. Job owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 2,000 head of cattle, and 1,000 donkeys. 13He was the father of seven sons and three daughters. 14He called the eldest daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the youngest Keren Happuch.#42.14 In Hebrew the names of Job's daughters suggest beauty both by their sound and by their meaning. Jemimah means “dove”; Keziah means “cassia”, a variety of cinnamon used as a perfume; and Keren Happuch means a small box used for eye make-up. 15There were no other women in the whole world as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them a share of the inheritance along with their brothers.
16Job lived 140 years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 17And then he died at a very great age.
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