Job 42 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job's Confession

Job 42:1Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

Job 42:2I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee.

Job 42:3For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

Job 42:4

Job 42:4But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.

Job 42:5

Job 42:5I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.

Job 42:6

Job 42:6Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

God Displeased with Job's Friends

Job 42:7

Job 42:7And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thæmanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:8

Job 42:8Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but for his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

Job 42:9

Job 42:9So Eliphaz the Thæmanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minæan, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

God Restores Job's Fortunes

Job 42:10

Job 42:10And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them their sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.

Job 42:11

Job 42:11And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and so did all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachms' weight of gold, even of unstamped gold.

Job 42:12

Job 42:12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

Job 42:13

Job 42:13And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Job 42:14

Job 42:14And he called the first, Day, and the second, Casia, and the third, Amalthæa's horn.

Job 42:15

Job 42:15And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer women than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.

Job 42:16

Job 42:16And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

Job 42:17

Job 42:17And Job died, an old man and full of days:

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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