Job Submits Himself to the LORD

1Then Job (hated) replied to the LORD {YHWH}:

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 <Job 38:2>?’a

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 <Job 38:3, Job 40:7>.’b

5My ears had heard of You,

but now my eyes have seen You.

6Therefore I despise myself,

and I repent in dust and ashes.”

The LORD Rebukes Job’s Friends

7After the LORD {YHWH} had spoken these words to Job (hated), He said to Eliphaz (my God is gold) 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 (hated), 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 (my God is gold) the Temanite, Bildad (confusing love) the Shuhite, and Zophar (sparrow) the Naamathite went and did as the LORD {YHWH} had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer (hated).

The LORD Blesses Job

10After Job (hated) had prayed for his friends, the LORD {YHWH} 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 {YHWH} had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver {a kesitah}c and a gold ring.

12So the LORD {YHWH} blessed Job’s (hated) 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 (day by day), his second Keziah (cassia), and his third Keren-happuch (horn of antimony). 15No women as beautiful as Job’s (hated) daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

16After this, Job (hated) lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17And so Job (hated) died, old and full of years.