Liber Iob, 42

1. Respondens autem Iob Domino dixit:

1. Then Job answered the LORD:

2. “Scio quia omnia potes, et nulla te latet cogitatio.

2. "I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted.

3. Quis est iste, qui celat consilium absque scientia? Ideo insipienter locutus sum et mirabilia, quae excederent scientiam meam.

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. Audi, et ego loquar; interrogabo te, et responde mihi.

4. `Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'

5. Auditu auris audivi te; nunc autem oculus meus videt te.

5. I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;

6. Idcirco ipse me reprehendo et ago paenitentiam in favilla et cinere”.

6. therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

7. Postquam autem locutus est Dominus verba haec ad Iob, dixit ad Eliphaz Themanitem: “Iratus est furor meus in te et in duos amicos tuos, quoniam non estis locuti coram me rectum sicut servus meus Iob.

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. Sumite ergo vobis septem tauros et septem arietes et ite ad servum meum Iob et offerte holocaustum pro vobis; Iob autem servus meus orabit pro vobis. Faciem eius suscipiam, ut non vobis imputetur stultitia; neque enim locuti estis ad me recta sicut servus meus Iob”.

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. Abierunt ergo Eliphaz Themanites et Baldad Suhites et Sophar Naamathites et fecerunt, sicut locutus fuerat Dominus ad eos, et suscepit Dominus faciem Iob.

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. Dominus vertit sortem Iob, cum oraret ille pro amicis suis; et addidit Dominus omnia, quaecumque fuerant Iob, duplicia.

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. Venerunt autem ad eum omnes fratres sui et universae sorores suae et cuncti, qui noverant eum prius; et comederunt cum eo panem in domo eius et moverunt super eum caput et consolati sunt eum super omni malo, quod intulerat Dominus super eum; et dederunt ei unusquisque argenteum unum et inaurem auream unam.

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. Dominus autem benedixit novissimis Iob magis quam principio eius; et facta sunt ei quattuordecim milia ovium et sex milia camelorum et mille iuga boum et mille asinae.

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. Et fuerunt ei septem filii et tres filiae;

13. He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14. et vocavit nomen unius Columbam et nomen secundae Cassiam et nomen tertiae Cornustibii.

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. Non sunt autem inventae mulieres speciosae sicut filiae Iob in universa terra; deditque eis pater suus hereditatem inter fratres earum.

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. Vixit autem Iob post haec centum quadraginta annis et vidit filios suos et filios filiorum suorum usque ad quartam generationem; et mortuus est senex et plenus dierum.

16. And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

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17. And Job died, an old man, and full of days.