42:1 Then Job answered the LORD and said:

42:2 I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted;
42:3 you asked,¹
“Who is this who darkens counsel
without knowledge?”
But² I have declared without understanding³
things too wonderful for me to know.⁴
42:4 You said,⁵
“Hear now, and I will speak,
I will question you and you will answer me.”
42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye has seen you.⁶
42:6 Therefore I despise myself,⁷
and I repent on dust and ashes.

42:7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is kindled against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right,⁸ as my servant Job has. 42:8 So now take⁹ seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede¹⁰ for you, and I will respect him,¹¹ so that I do not deal with you¹² according to your folly,¹³ because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”¹⁴

42:9 So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the LORD had told them; and the LORD had respect for Job.¹⁵

42:10 So the LORD¹⁶ restored what Job had lost¹⁷ after he prayed for his friends,¹⁸ and the LORD doubled¹⁹ all that had belonged to Job. 42:11 So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver²⁰ and a gold ring.²¹

42:12 So the Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 42:13 And he also had seven sons²² and three daughters. 42:14 The first daughter he named Jemimah,²³ the second Keziah,²⁴ and the third Keren Happuch.²⁵ 42:15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

42:16 After this Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 42:17 And so Job died, old and full