Job 42:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job answered the LORD:

2 I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

3 you asked, 'Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?' But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.

4 You said, 'Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.

6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, |My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.|

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.