Job 42

Now my eye has seen you

1And Job answered Yahweh and said: 2I know that you can do everything, and no plan of yours can be blocked.* 3“Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?” So I spoke, and did not understand; wonders beyond me, and I did not know. 4“Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you will inform me.” 5By the hearing of the ear I had heard of you, and now my eye has seen you. 6That is why I take it back, and I repent in dust and ashes.

Yahweh speaks to Eliphaz

7And after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken rightly of me, as my servant Job has. 8So now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will pray for you. I will accept him and not deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken rightly of me, as my servant Job has.” 9So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Yahweh had told them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

Yahweh restores what Job had lost

10And Yahweh restored what Job had lost, when he prayed for his friends; and Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11Then all his brothers and all his sisters and everyone who had known him before came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They grieved with him and comforted him for all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him, and each of them gave him one kesitah and one gold ring. 12And Yahweh blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first: he came to have fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand female donkeys. 13He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15In all the land no women were found as beautiful as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16After this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his sons’ sons, four generations. 17And Job died, old and full of days.