Job 42
Job acknowledges God's power and admits to speaking foolishly about things beyond his knowledge. God rebukes Job's friends, Eliphaz, Baldad, and Zophar, for speaking incorrectly about Him and instructs them to offer sacrifices and have Job pray for them. Job prays for his friends, and God accepts his prayer, restoring Job's fortunes and giving him twice as much as he had before. Job lives for another 140 years, sees four generations of his children, and dies an old man.
1Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:2I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you3So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge4Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me5By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you6Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes7But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done8Therefore, have seven bulls and seven rams brought to you, and go to my servant Job, and offer these as a holocaust for yourselves. But also, my servant Job will pray for you; I will accept his face, so that foolishness will not be imputed to you. For you have not been speaking correctly about me, as my servant Job has done9So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite departed, and they did just as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job10Likewise, the Lord was moved by the repentance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave to Job twice as much as he had before11Yet all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and everyone who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They also shook their heads over him and comforted him, because of all the bad things that God had inflicted on him. And each one of them gave him one female sheep, and one earring of gold12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys13And he had seven sons and three daughters14And he called the name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics15And, in the whole world, there were not found women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. And so their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers16But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation,17and he died an old man and full of days.
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