Job 42 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job's Confession

Job 42:1Then Job answered the LORD:

Job 42:2"I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted.

Job 42:3'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.

Job 42:4

Job 42:4'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'

Job 42:5

Job 42:5I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;

Job 42:6

Job 42:6therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

God Displeased with Job's Friends

Job 42:7

Job 42:7After 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.

Job 42:8

Job 42:8Now 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."

Job 42:9

Job 42:9So 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.

God Restores Job's Fortunes

Job 42:10

Job 42:10And 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.

Job 42:11

Job 42:11Then 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.

Job 42:12

Job 42:12And 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.

Job 42:13

Job 42:13He had also seven sons and three daughters.

Job 42:14

Job 42:14And 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.

Job 42:15

Job 42:15And in all the land there were no women so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

Job 42:16

Job 42:16And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

Job 42:17

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

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Job 42 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job's Confession

God Displeased with Job's Friends

God Restores Job's Fortunes

Pericope