Job 42

1Then Job answered Yahweh:

2“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · Job 23:13 · Ps 44:21 · Ps 139:2 · Prov 19:21 · Eccl 3:14 · +15 more

3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.Cross-references: Job 38:2 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 131:1 · Ps 139:6 · Prov 30:2

4You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’Cross-references: Gen 18:27 · Gen 18:30 · Job 38:3 · Job 40:7

5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.Cross-references: Num 12:6 · Job 4:12 · Job 23:8 · Job 26:14 · Job 28:22 · Job 33:16 · +8 more

6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”Cross-references: 1Ki 21:27 · Ezra 9:6 · Esth 4:1 · Job 2:8 · Job 9:31 · Job 30:19 · +16 more

7It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.Cross-references: Job 2:11 · Job 4:1 · Job 8:1 · Job 11:1 · Job 11:5 · Job 32:2 · +2 more

8Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and 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 him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”Cross-references: Gen 20:17 · Ex 18:12 · Num 23:1 · Num 23:14 · Num 23:29 · 1Sam 25:35 · +24 more

9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.Cross-references: Job 22:27 · Job 34:31 · Job 42:8 · Prov 3:11 · Eccl 9:7 · Isa 60:14 · +5 more

10Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.Cross-references: Gen 20:17 · Ex 17:4 · Num 12:2 · Num 12:13 · Num 14:1 · Num 14:10 · +24 more

11Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.Cross-references: Gen 24:22 · Gen 24:53 · Gen 37:35 · Josh 24:32 · 1Sam 10:27 · Job 2:11 · +11 more

12So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.Cross-references: Gen 24:35 · Gen 26:12 · Deut 8:16 · Job 1:3 · Job 8:7 · Ps 107:38 · +5 more

13He had also seven sons and three daughters.Cross-references: Job 1:2 · Ps 107:41 · Ps 127:3 · Isa 49:20

14He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

15In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.Cross-references: Num 27:7 · Josh 15:18 · Josh 18:4 · Ps 144:12 · Acts 7:20

16After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.Cross-references: Gen 11:32 · Gen 25:7 · Gen 35:28 · Gen 47:28 · Gen 50:23 · Gen 50:26 · +5 more

17So Job died, being old and full of days.Cross-references: Gen 15:15 · Gen 25:8 · Deut 6:2 · Job 5:26 · Ps 91:16 · Prov 3:16