Job 42:1-9 ▼

1 And Job answers YHWH and says:

2 “You have known that [for] all things You are able, || And no purpose is withheld from You.

3 [You said], Who [is] this hiding counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I have declared, and do not understand, || Too wonderful for me, and I do not know.

4 Please hear, and I speak; [You said], I ask you, and you cause Me to know.

5 By the hearing of the ear I heard You, || And now my eye has seen You.

6 Therefore I loathe [it], || And I have sighed on dust and ashes.”

7 And it comes to pass after YHWH’s speaking these words to Job, that YHWH says to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger has burned against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken correctly concerning Me, like My servant Job.

8 And now, take seven bullocks and seven rams for yourselves, and go to My servant Job, and you have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for yourselves; and Job My servant prays for you, for surely I accept his face, so as not to do folly with you, because you have not spoken correctly concerning Me, like My servant Job.”

9 And they go—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite—and do as YHWH has spoken to them; and YHWH accepts the face of Job.