Chapter 42
1 Then Job answered Yahweh :
2 " I know that you can do all things , and that no purpose of yours can be restrained .
3 You asked, ‘ Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge ?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand , things too wonderful for me , which I didn’t know .
4 You said , ‘ Listen , now , and I will speak ; I will question you , and you will answer me .’
5 I had 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 It was so , that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job , Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite , " My wrath is kindled against you , and against your two friends ; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right , as my servant Job has .
8 Now therefore , take to yourselves seven bulls 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 , that I not deal with you according to your folly . For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right , as my servant Job has ."
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what Yahweh commanded them , and Yahweh accepted Job .
10 Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends . Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before , came to him and ate bread with him in his house . They comforted him , and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him . Everyone also gave him a piece of money , and everyone a ring of gold .
12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning . He had fourteen thousand sheep , six thousand camels , one thousand yoke of oxen , and a thousand female donkeys.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters .
14 He called the name of the first, 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 beautiful as the daughters of Job . Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years , and saw his sons , and his sons ’ sons , to four generations .
17 So Job died , being old and full of days .