Job 42
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Job Answers the Lord
1Then Job answered the Lord:
2“I know you can do everything.
You make plans, and nothing can change or stop them.
3You asked, ‘Who is this ignorant person saying these foolish things?’#42:3 Who … things Or “Who is this person darkening advice with ignorant words.”
I talked about things I did not understand.
I talked about things too amazing for me to know.
4“You said to me, ‘Listen, and I will speak.
I will ask you questions, and you will answer me.’
5In the past I heard about you,
but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
6And I am ashamed of myself.#42:6 I am ashamed of myself Or “I take back what I said.”
I am so sorry.
As I sit in the dust and ashes,#42:6 dust and ashes People sat in dust and ashes to show that they were very sad about something.
I promise to change my heart and my life.”
The Lord Gives Job’s Wealth Back
7After the Lord finished talking to Job, he spoke to Eliphaz from Teman. He said, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not tell the truth about me, as my servant Job did. 8So now, Eliphaz, get seven bulls and seven rams. Take them to my servant Job. Kill them and offer them as a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer. Then I will not give you the punishment you deserve. You should be punished, because you were very foolish. You did not say what is right about me, as my servant Job did.”
9So Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah obeyed the Lord. Then the Lord answered Job’s prayer.
10Job prayed for his friends, and the Lord made Job successful again. The Lord gave him twice as much as he had before. 11Then all his brothers and sisters and all the people who knew him before came to his house. They all ate a big meal with him. They comforted him and were sorry that the Lord had brought him so much trouble. Each person gave Job a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12The Lord blessed Job with even more than he had in the beginning. Job got 14,000 sheep, 6000 camels, 2000 oxen, and 1000 female donkeys. 13He also got seven sons and three daughters. 14He named the first daughter Jemimah and the second daughter Keziah. He named the third daughter Keren Happuch. 15Job’s daughters were among the most beautiful women in all the country. And, like their brothers, they each got a share of their father’s property.#42:15 And … property Usually a person’s property was divided only among the sons, but here, even Job’s daughters got part of his property.
16So Job lived for 140 years more. He lived to see his children, his grandchildren, his great-grandchildren, and his great-great-grandchildren. 17Job lived to be a very old man who had lived a good, long life.
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© 1987, 2004 Bible League International
Job 42
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1 Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
2 I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.
3 So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge.
4 Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
5 By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
6 Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
7 But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.
8 Therefore, have seven bulls and seven rams brought to you, and go to my servant Job, and offer these as a holocaust for yourselves. But also, my servant Job will pray for you; I will accept his face, so that foolishness will not be imputed to you. For you have not been speaking correctly about me, as my servant Job has done.
9 So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite departed, and they did just as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.
10 Likewise, the Lord was moved by the repentance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave to Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Yet all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and everyone who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They also shook their heads over him and comforted him, because of all the bad things that God had inflicted on him. And each one of them gave him one female sheep, and one earring of gold.
12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.
13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics.
15 And, in the whole world, there were not found women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. And so their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, all the way to the fourth generation, and he died an old man and full of days.
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