Job 42
1 Then Job answered the LORD:
2 “I know that you can do anything, and that no plan of yours can be thwarted.
3 ‘Who is this who hides the plan without knowledge?’ That is why I spoke of what I do not understand, of things too wonderful for me, which I do not know.
4 ‘Listen, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’
5 I had heard of you with my ears; now my eyes see you.
6 Therefore I give up and repent, in dust and ashes.”
7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken rightly about me, as my servant Job has.
8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you; I will accept him and will not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken rightly about me, as my servant Job has.”
9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job.
10 The LORD restored Job’s fortunes when he prayed for his friends, and gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 All Job’s brothers and sisters, and everyone who had known him before, came to him and ate with him in his house. They mourned with him and comforted him for all the trouble the LORD had brought on him; each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12 The LORD blessed the end of Job’s life more than its beginning: he came to have fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
13 He had seven sons and three daughters.
14 He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
15 Throughout the whole land, no women were as beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and his grandchildren, four generations.
17 And Job died, old and full of days.
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