Job 42
42
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
42
Job's Confession and Acceptance
1Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2I know that thou canst do every thing,
and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 #
Job 38.2. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge?
Therefore have I uttered that I understood not;
things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 #
Job 38.3. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak:
I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear;
but now mine eye seeth thee:
6wherefore I abhor myself,
and repent in dust and ashes.
7And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to El´iphaz the Te´manite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. 8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. 9So El´iphaz the Te´manite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Na´amathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.
The Restoration of Job's Prosperity
10 #
Job 1.1-3. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. 12So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14And he called the name of the first, Jemi´ma; and the name of the second, Kezi´a; and the name of the third, Keren–hap´puch. 15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. 16After this lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. 17So Job died, being old and full of days.
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