CHAPTER 42

¹And Job answered the LORD and he said:

                ²I know You can do anything,

                    and no devising is beyond You.

                ³“Who is this obscuring counsel without knowledge?”

                    Therefore I told but did not understand,

                          wonders beyond me that I did not know.

                ⁴“Hear, pray, and I will speak.

                    Let me ask you, that you may inform me.”

                ⁵By the ear’s rumor I heard of You,

                    and now my eye has seen You.

                ⁶Therefore do I recant,

                    And I repent in dust and ashes.

⁷And it happened after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath has flared against you and your two companions because you have not spoken rightly of Me as did My servant Job. ⁸And now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves, and Job My servant will pray on your behalf. To him only I shall show favor, not to do a vile thing to you, for you have not spoken rightly of Me as did my servant Job.” ⁹And Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went out and did according to all that the LORD had spoken to them, and the LORD showed favor to Job. ¹⁰And the LORD restored Job’s fortunes when he prayed for his companions, and the LORD increased twofold all that Job had. ¹¹And all his male and female kinfolk and all who had known him before came and broke bread with him in his house and grieved with him and comforted him for all the harm that the LORD had brought on him. And each of them gave him one kesitah and one golden ring. ¹²And the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his former days, and he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a thousand yokes of oxen and a thousand she-asses. ¹³And he had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴And he called the name of the first one Dove and the name of the second Cinnamon and the name of the third Horn of Eyeshade. ¹⁵And there were no women in the land so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an estate among their brothers. ¹⁶And Job lived a hundred and forty years after this, and he saw his children and his children’s children, four generations. ¹⁷And Job died, aged and sated in years.