Job 42

Job Chapter 42 ESV

1Job submitteth himself unto God. 7God preferreth Job's cause, and maketh his three friends submit themselves to him. 9He accepteth Job, and doubleth his blessings upon him. 13Job's children. 16His age and death.
1 Then Job answered the Lord and said:
2 “I know that you can 1do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 1‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things 2too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak; 1I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself, and repenta in 1dust and ashes.”
7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz 1the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
8 Now therefore take 1seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and 2offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall 3pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
9 1So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.
10 And the Lord 1restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job 2twice as much as he had before.
11 Then came to him all his 1brothers and sisters and all who had 2known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they 3showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evila that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him 4a piece of moneyb and 5a ring of gold.
12 And the Lord blessed 1the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 214,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13 He had also 1seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.
15 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance 1among their brothers.
16 And after this Job lived 140 years, and 1saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
17 And Job died, an old man, and 1full of days.
Job 42

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