“I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
‘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.
‘Hear, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;
therefore I despise myself,
and repent in dust and ashes.”
After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said
to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against
your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as
my servant Job has. Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams
and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for
yourselves. 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.” So
Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the
Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD
accepted Job's prayer.
And 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.
Then 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.
And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his
beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of
oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He had also seven sons and three
daughters. And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah,
and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-
happuch. And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as
Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among
their brothers. And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his
sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. And Job died, an old
man, and full of days.
