JOB 42 [†]Then Job answered the LORD and said:

2 “I know that you can  h do all things,

and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

3[^][†]  i ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,

things  j too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;

 k I 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 repent [1] in  l dust and ashes.”

7[†]After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz  m the 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  n seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and  o offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall  p pray 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 q So 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  r restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job  s twice as much as he had before. 11[†]Then came to him all his  t brothers and sisters and all who had  t known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they  u showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil [2] that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him  v a piece of money [3] and  w a ring of gold.

12And the LORD blessed  x the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had  y 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13He had also  z seven 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. 15And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance  a among their brothers. 16[†]And after this Job lived 140 years, and  b saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations. 17And Job died, an old man, and  c full of days.