42Job 42

1Then Job answered the Lord.Select Job 42:1

Job

2I know, Lord, that you are all-powerful; that you can do everything you want.Select Job 42:2

3You ask how I dare question your wisdom when I am so very ignorant. I talked about things I did not understand, about marvels too great for me to know.Select Job 42:3

4You told me to listen while you spoke and to try to answer your questions.Select Job 42:4

5In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.Select Job 42:5

6So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes.Select Job 42:6

Conclusion

7After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, the way my servant Job did.Select Job 42:7

8Now take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and offer them as a sacrifice for yourselves. Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer and not disgrace you the way you deserve. You did not speak the truth about me as he did.”Select Job 42:8

9Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar did what the Lord had told them to do, and the Lord answered Job's prayer.Select Job 42:9

10Then, after Job had prayed for his three friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had had before.Select Job 42:10

11All Job's brothers and sisters and former friends came to visit him and feasted with him in his house. They expressed their sympathy and comforted him for all the troubles the Lord had brought on him. Each of them gave him some money and a gold ring.Select Job 42:11

12The Lord blessed the last part of Job's life even more than he had blessed the first. Job owned fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, two thousand head of cattle, and one thousand donkeys.Select Job 42:12

13He was the father of seven sons and three daughters.Select Job 42:13

14He called the oldest daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the youngest Keren Happuch.Select Job 42:14

15There were no other women in the whole world as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them a share of the inheritance along with their brothers.Select Job 42:15

16Job lived a hundred and forty years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.Select Job 42:16

17And then he died at a very great age.Select Job 42:17