Job, 42

1. This was the answer Job gave to Yahweh:

1. Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

2. I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform.

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

3. I was the man who misrepresented your intentions with my ignorant words. You have told me about great works that I cannot understand, about marvels which are beyond me, of which I know nothing.

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.

4. (Listen, please, and let me speak: I am going to ask the questions, and you are to inform me.)

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

5. Before, I knew you only by hearsay but now, having seen you with my own eyes,

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

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

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

7. When Yahweh had finished saying this to Job, he said to Eliphaz of Teman, 'I burn with anger against you and your two friends, for not having spoken correctly about me as my servant Job has done.

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].

8. So now find seven bullocks and seven rams, and take them back with you to my servant Job and make a burnt offering for yourselves, while Job, my servant, offers prayers for you. I shall show him favour and shall not inflict my displeasure on you for not having spoken about me correctly, as my servant Job had done.'

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.

9. Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah and Zophar of Naamath went away to do as Yahweh had ordered, and Yahweh listened to Job with favour.

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.

10. And Yahweh restored Job's condition, while Job was interceding for his friends. More than that, Yahweh gave him double what he had before.

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.

11. And all his brothers and all his sisters and all his friends of former times came to see him. Over dinner in his house, they showed their sympathy and comforted him for all the evils Yahweh had inflicted on him. Each of them gave him a silver coin, and each a gold ring.

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.

12. Yahweh blessed Job's latter condition even more than his former one. He came to own fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she-donkeys.

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.

13. He had seven sons and three daughters;

13. He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14. his first daughter he called 'Turtledove', the second 'Cassia' and the third 'Mascara'.

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

15. Throughout the land there were no women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance rights like their brothers.

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.

16. After this, Job lived for another one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and his children's children to the fourth generation.

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

17. Then, old and full of days, Job died.

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