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Job’s Repentance and Restoration

1Then Job answered the Lord and said:

2“I know that You can do everything,

And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.

3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,

Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

4Listen, please, and let me speak;

You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’

5“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,

But now my eye sees You.

6Therefore I abhor42:6 despise myself,

And repent in dust and ashes.”

7And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

8Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept 42:8 Lit. his facehim, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them; for the Lord had 42:9 Lit. lifted up the face of Jobaccepted Job.

10And the Lord 42:10 Lit. turned the captivity of Job, what was captured from Jobrestored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.

12Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

13He also had seven sons and three daughters.

14And he called the name of the first 42:14 Lit. Handsome as the DayJemimah, the name of the second 42:14 Cassia, a fragranceKeziah, and the name of the third 42:14 Lit. The Horn of Color or The Colorful RayKeren-Happuch.

15In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

16After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.

17So Job died, old and full of days.