Job 42
42
Job's reply to the LORD
No one can oppose you
1Job said:
2No one can oppose you,
because you have the power
to do what you want.
3You asked why I talk so much#Job 38.2.
when I know so little.
I have talked about things
that are far beyond
my understanding.
4You told me to listen#Job 38.3.
and answer your questions.#42.4 questions: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 4.
5I heard about you from others;
now I have seen you
with my own eyes.
6That's why I hate myself
and sit here in dust and ashes
to show my sorrow.
The Lord again blesses Job with health, wealth, and family
The LORD corrects Job's friends
7The LORD said to Eliphaz:
What my servant Job has said about me is true, but I am angry with you and your two friends for not telling the truth. 8So I want you to go over to Job and offer seven bulls and seven goats on an altar as a sacrifice to please me.#42.8 sacrifice to please me: These sacrifices have traditionally been called “whole burnt offerings” because the whole animal was burnt on the altar. A main purpose of such sacrifices was to please the LORD with the smell of the sacrifice, and so in the CEV they are often called “sacrifices to please the LORD”. After this, Job will pray, and I will agree not to punish you for your foolishness.
9Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar obeyed the LORD, and he answered Job's prayer.
A happy ending
10After Job had prayed for his three friends, the LORD made Job twice as rich as he had been before.#Job 1.1-3. 11Then Job gave a feast for his brothers and sisters and for his old friends. They expressed their sorrow for the suffering the LORD had brought on him, and they each gave Job some silver and a gold ring.
12The LORD now blessed Job more than ever; he gave him fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand pair of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.
13In addition to seven sons, Job had three daughters, 14whose names were Jemimah, Keziah, and Keren Happuch. 15They were the most beautiful women in that part of the world, and Job gave them shares of his property, along with their brothers.
16Job lived for another one hundred and forty years—long enough to see his great-grandchildren have children of their own— 17and when he finally died, he was very old.
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© British and Foreign Bible Society 2012
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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