Job 42

Revised Geneva Translation

42 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

² “I know that You can do all things, and that there is no thought hidden from You.

³ “Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I have spoken of that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me and which I did not know.

⁴ “Please hear, and I will speak. I will ask You, and You tell me.

⁵ “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear. But now my eye sees You.

⁶ “Therefore, I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

⁷ Now, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD also said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends. For you have not spoken the thing that is right about Me, like my servant Job.

⁸ “Therefore, take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams and go to My servant, Job, and offer up for yourselves a Burnt Offering. And My servant, Job, shall pray for you. For I will accept him. Lest I should put you to shame because you have not spoken the thing which is right about Me, like my servant Job.”

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as the LORD had said to them. And the LORD accepted Job.

¹⁰ Then the LORD turned the fortunes of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Also, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

¹¹ Then all his brothers came to him, and all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, and ate bread with him in his house, and had compassion on him, and comforted him for all the misery that the LORD had brought upon him. And every man gave him a piece of money, and everyone an earring of gold.

¹² So the LORD blessed the last days of Job more than the first. For he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

¹³ He also had seven sons and three daughters.

¹⁴ And he called the name of one, Jemimah, and the name of the second, Keziah, and the name of the third, Keren-Happuch.

¹⁵ In all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

¹⁶ And after this, Job lived a hundred forty years, and saw his sons and his son’s sons, for four generations.

¹⁷ So Job died, being old and full of days.