42:1 Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
42:2 I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with
thee.
42:3 For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his
words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew
not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?
42:4 But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do
thou teach me.
42:5 I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has
seen thee.
42:6 Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem
myself dust and ashes.
42:7 And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job,
[that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy
two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job
[has].
42:8 Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job,
and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray
for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have
destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.
42:9 So Eliphaz the Thaemnite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the
Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin
for the sake of Job.
42:10 And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends,
he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the
double of what he had before.
42:11 And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to
him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the
first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at
all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and
four drachms' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].
42:12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning:
and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand
yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.
42:13 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
42:14 And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third
Amalthaea's horn.
42:15 And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job,
fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an
inheritance among their brethren.
42:16 And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and
all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and
his sons' sons, the fourth generation.
42:17 And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he
will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up.
This man is described in the Syriac book [as] living in the land of Ausis,
on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and
having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he
himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his
mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the
kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac,
the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Baac, Jobab,
who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country
of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in
the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And [his] friends
who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the
Thaemanites, Baldad son of the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Kinaeans. |
42:1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
42:2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be
withholden from thee.
42:3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I
uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew
not.
42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and
declare thou unto me.
42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth
thee.
42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
42:7 And 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.
42:8 Therefore 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.
42:9 So 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.
42:10 And 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.
42:11 Then 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.
42:12 So 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.
42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the
second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of
Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and
his sons' sons, even four generations.
42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days. |