Book of Job, Chapter 42
Job 42 RSV - Revised Standard Version Chapter 42 of Job—Revised Standard Version (RSV)
- ¶ Then Job answered the LORD:
- ¶ “I know that thou canst do all things,
and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted. - ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. - ‘Hear, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you declare to me.’ - I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees thee; - therefore I despise myself,
and repent in dust and ashes.” - ¶ After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eli′phaz the Te′manite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
- Now therefore take 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 his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
- So Eli′phaz the Te′manite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Na′amathite went and did what the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.
- ¶ And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money[a] and a ring of gold.
- And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
- He had also seven sons and three daughters.
- And he called the name of the first Jemi′mah; and the name of the second Kezi′ah; and the name of the third Ker′en-hap′puch.
- And in all the land there were no women so fair as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
- And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations.
- And Job died, an old man, and full of days.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Heb qesitah
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