Job 42

1Then Job answered the Lord, and said,Log in to add notes

2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.Log in to add notes

3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.Log in to add notes

4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.Log in to add notes

5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.Log in to add notes

6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.Log in to add notes

7And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.Log in to add notes

8Therefore take unto 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.Log in to add notes

9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.Log in to add notes

10And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.Log in to add notes

11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.Log in to add notes

12So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.Log in to add notes

13He had also seven sons and three daughters.Log in to add notes

14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.Log in to add notes

15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.Log in to add notes

16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.Log in to add notes

17So Job died, being old and full of days.Log in to add notes