Job 42
42
1Then Job answered the Lord, and said:
2I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from thee.
3Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge.
4Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.
5With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee: but now my eye seeth thee.
6Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
7And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath.
8Take unto you therefore seven oxen, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust. And my servant Job shall pray for you. His face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.
9So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them. And the Lord accepted the face of Job.
10The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before. And they ate bread with him in his house, and bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought upon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold.
12And 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.
13And he had seven sons, and three daughters.
14And he called the names of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibii.
15And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16And Job lived after these things a hundred and forty years: and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation. And he died, an old man and full of days.
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Job 42
42
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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