| 42:1 | Then Job answered the Lord: |
| 42:2 | “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted; |
| 42:3 | you asked,* ‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But* I have declared without understanding* things too wonderful for me to know.* |
| 42:4 | You said,* ‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’ |
| 42:5 | I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.* |
| 42:6 | Therefore I despise myself,* and I repent in dust and ashes! |
| 42:7 | 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. |
| 42:8 | 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.”* |
| 42:9 | 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.* |
| 42:10 | So the Lord* restored what Job had lost* after he prayed for his friends,* and the Lord doubled* all that had belonged to Job. |
| 42:11 | So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined* with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver* and a gold ring.* |
| 42:12 | So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. |
| 42:13 | And he also had seven sons* and three daughters. |
| 42:14 | The first daughter he named Jemimah,* the second Keziah,* and the third Keren-Happuch.* |
| 42:15 | Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers. |
| 42:16 | After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. |
| 42:17 | And so Job died, old and full of days. |
Job 42 - NET Bible [draft]
