Job 42:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job answered the LORD,

2 |I know that you can do everything and that your plans are unstoppable.

3 |[You said,] 'Who is this that belittles my advice without having any knowledge [about it]?' Yes, I have stated things I didn't understand, things too mysterious for me to know.

4 |[You said,] 'Listen now, and I will speak. I will ask you, and you will teach me.'

5 I had heard about you with my own ears, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.

6 That is why I take back what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry.|

7 After the LORD had said those things to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz from Teman, |I'm very angry with you and your two friends because you didn't speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done.

8 So take seven young bulls and seven rams. Go to my servant Job, and make a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you. Then I will accept his prayer not to treat you as godless fools. After all, you didn't speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done.|

9 Then Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah, and Zophar of Naama went and did what the LORD had told them to do. And the LORD accepted Job's prayer.