Job, 42
1. This was the answer Job gave to Yahweh:
1. Then Job answered the LORD:
2. I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform.
2. "I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted.
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 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.
4. (Listen, please, and let me speak: I am going to ask the questions, and you are to inform me.)
4. `Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'
5. Before, I knew you only by hearsay but now, having seen you with my own eyes,
5. I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;
6. I retract what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes.
6. therefore I despise 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. 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.
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. 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."
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 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.
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 restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and 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 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 and a ring 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. 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.
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 Jemi'mah; and the name of the second Kezi'ah; and the name of the third Ker'en-hap'puch.
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 there were no women so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
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. And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
17. Then, old and full of days, Job died.
17. And Job died, an old man, and full of days.
