Job’s Repentance and Restoration
1 Then Job answered theLordand said:
2 “I know that Youcan do everything,
And that no purposeofYourscan be withheld from You.
3 Youasked,‘Whoisthis who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
# Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 Listen, please, and let me speak;
# Yousaid,‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’
5 “I haveheard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.
6 Therefore Iabhormyself,
And repent in dust and ashes.”
7 And so it was, after theLordhad spoken these words to Job, that theLordsaid to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Mewhatisright, as My servant Jobhas.
8 Now therefore, take for yourselvesseven bulls and seven rams,go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shallpray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with youaccordingtoyourfolly; because you have not spoken of Mewhatisright, as My servant Jobhas.”
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the ShuhiteandZophar the Naamathite went and did as theLordcommanded them; for theLordhad accepted Job.
10 And theLordrestored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed theLordgave Jobtwice as much as he had before.
11 Thenall 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 theLordhad brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.
12 Now theLordblessedthe latterdaysof Job more than his beginning; for he hadfourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch.
15 In all the land were found no womensobeautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
16 After this Joblived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildrenforfour generations.
17 So Job died, old andfull of days.