Job Repents and is Restored
42 Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know[a] that you can do anything
and nothing that you plan is impossible.
3 You asked,[b] ‘Who is this that darkens counsel without knowledge?’
Well now, I have talked about what I don’t understand—
awesome things beyond me that I don’t know.
4 Listen now, and I will speak for myself;
I’ll interrogate you and then inform me.
5 I’ve heard you with my ears;
and now I’ve seen you with my eyes.
6 As a result, I despise myself and repent
in dust and ashes.”
Job’s Friends are Restored
7 After these words had been spoken by the Lord to Job, the Lord spoke to Eliphaz from Teman: “My anger is burning against you along with your two friends, since you haven’t spoken correctly about me, as did my servant Job. 8 So take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to my servant Job. And bring a whole burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you. I’ll encourage him[c] by not responding as your disgraceful folly deserves, since you didn’t speak about me correctly as did my servant Job.” 9 So Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamath did precisely as the Lord had spoken to them, because the Lord showed favor to[d] Job.
Job’s Prosperity Returns
10 The Lord restored Job’s prosperity after he prayed for his friends. The Lord doubled everything that Job had once possessed. 11 Then all his brothers and sisters and all those who knew him before arrived. They ate food with him in his house, mourned for him, and consoled him for all the trouble that the Lord had brought and placed on him. Some[e] gave him gold bullion[f] and some brought[g] gold earrings.
12 The Lord blessed Job during the latter part of his life[h] more than the former, since he owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen[i] and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first daughter Jemima,[j] the second Keziah,[k] and the name of the third was Keren-happuch.[l] 15 No one could find more beautiful women in the whole land than Job’s daughters. Their father gave them their inheritance along with their brothers. 16 Job lived 140 years after this, and saw his children and grandchildren to the fourth generation. 17 Then Job died at an old age, having lived a full life.[m]
Footnotes
- Job 42:2 Or You know that I know
- Job 42:3 The Heb. lacks You asked
- Job 42:8 Lit. I’ll lift his face
- Job 42:9 Lit. lift his face
- Job 42:11 Lit. A man
- Job 42:11 Lit. him one kesitah; a unit of gold weight, the value of which is unknown today
- Job 42:11 Lit. and a man
- Job 42:12 The Heb. lacks part of his life
- Job 42:12 Or 1,000 pairs of cattle
- Job 42:14 The name means day by day
- Job 42:14 The name means cinnamon
- Job 42:14 The name means power of antimony; i.e. an element valued for medicinal uses
- Job 42:17 Lit. died old and full of days