Job Submits Himself to God
1 Then Job answered the Lord,
2 “I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this
who hides my counsel without knowledge?’
Surely I have uttered that which I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak.
I will question you, and you will answer me.’
5 I had heard of you with my ears,
but now I have seen you with my eyes.
6 Therefore I abhor myself,
and repent in dust and ashes.”
The Lord Rebukes Job’s Friends
7 It was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite,
“My anger is burning against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 Now therefore, take to yourselves 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 him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has.”
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
God Blesses Job
10 The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends and gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 All of his brothers and all of his sisters and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to his house and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him concerning all the adversity that the Lord had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of silver and a ring of gold.
12 So the Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than his beginning. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first, Jemimah, and the second, Keziah, and the third, Keren Happuch. 15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16 After this Job lived 140 years and saw his sons and his sons’ sons, to four generations. 17 So Job died, old and full of days.