Job, 42

1. Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

1. This was the answer Job gave to Yahweh:

2. I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee.

2. I know that you are all powerful; no plan of yours can be thwarted.

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.

3. I spoke of things I did not understand, too wonderful for me to know.

4. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

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5. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

5. My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you.

6. Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

6. Therefore I retract all I have said, and in dust and ashes I repent.

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].

7. After Yahweh had spoken to Job, he turned to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends because you have not spoken of me rightly, as has my servant Job.

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.

8. Now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, offer a holocaust for yourselves and let him pray for you. I will accept his prayer and excuse your folly in not speaking of me properly as my servant Job has done."

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.

9. Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Yahweh had ordered. Yahweh accepted Job's intercession.

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.

10. After Job had prayed for his friends, Yahweh restored his fortunes, giving him twice as much as he had before.

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.

11. All his brothers and sisters and his former friends came to his house and dined with him. They showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that Yahweh had brought to him. Each of them gave him a silver coin and a gold ring.

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.

12. Yahweh blessed Job's latter days much more than his earlier ones. He came to own fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

13. He had also seven sons and three daughters.

13. He was also blessed with seven sons and three daughters.

14. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.

14. The first daughter he named Dove, the second Cinnamon, and the third Bottle of Perfume.

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.

15. Nowhere in the land was there found any woman who could compare in beauty with Job's daughters. Their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

16. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.

16. Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

17. So Job died, [being] old and full of days.

17. He died old and full of years.