Job 42
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Job’s second response
1Job answered the LORD:
2I know you can do anything;
no plan of yours can be opposed successfully.
3You said,#42.3 Heb lacks You said. “Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?”
I have indeed spoken about things I didn’t understand,
wonders beyond my comprehension.
4You said,#42.4 Heb lacks You said. “Listen and I will speak;
I will question you and you will inform me.”
5My ears had heard about you,
but now my eyes have seen you.
6Therefore, I relent#42.6 The verse is capable of several translations: I despise or relent, no direct object; repent of or concerning dust and ashes. and find comfort
on dust and ashes.
Epilogue
7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz from Teman, “I’m angry at you and your two friends because you haven’t spoken about me correctly as did my servant Job. 8So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and prepare an entirely burned offering for yourselves. Job my servant will pray for you, and I will act favorably by not making fools of you because you didn’t speak correctly, as did my servant Job.”
9Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah did what the LORD told them; and the LORD acted favorably toward Job. 10Then the LORD changed Job’s fortune when he prayed for his friends, and the LORD doubled all Job’s earlier possessions. 11All his brothers, sisters, and acquaintances came to him and ate food with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him concerning all the disaster the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a qesitah#42.11 A monetary unit and a gold ring. 12Then the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his former ones. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. 13He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14He named one Jemimah,#42.14 Dove a second Keziah,#42.14 Cinnamon and the third Keren-happuch.#42.14 Jar for Dark Cosmetic 15No women in all the land were as beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave an inheritance to them along with their brothers. 16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw four generations of his children. 17Then Job died, old and satisfied.
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Job 42
42
1Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2I know that thou canst do all things,
And that no purpose of thine can be restrained.
3Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge?
Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not,
Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak;
I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5I had 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 Eliphaz the Temanite, 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. 8Now therefore, take unto you 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, that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. 9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: And the LORD accepted Job 10And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: And 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 concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: Every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold. 12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And 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, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. 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. 16And after this Job lived an 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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