Job 42

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

Job replies to the Lord, acknowledging God's power and repenting in dust and ashes for speaking about things he did not understand. The Lord then expresses anger toward Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar for not speaking accurately about Him, instructing them to offer a burnt offering and have Job pray for them. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar follow these instructions, and the Lord accepts Job's prayer. Following this, the Lord restores Job's prosperity, giving him twice as much as he had before along with visits and gifts from his family and acquaintances. Job ultimately receives numerous livestock, has seven sons and three daughters named Jemimah, Keziah, and Keren-happuch, and lives for another 140 years to see four generations of descendants before dying at an advanced age.

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¹Then Job replied to the LORD: ²“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted. ³You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. ⁴You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’ ⁵My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You. ⁶Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.” ⁷After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has. ⁸So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.” ⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer. ¹⁰After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions. ¹¹All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. ¹²So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. ¹³And he also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch. ¹⁵No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. ¹⁷And so Job died, old and full of years.

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