Job’s Confession

1Then Job answered the Lord:

2“I know that you can do all things;

no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

3you asked,

‘Who is this who darkens counsel

without knowledge?’

But I have declared without understanding

things too wonderful for me to know.

4You said,

‘Pay attention, and I will speak;

I will question you, and you will answer me.’

5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,

but now my eye has seen you.

6Therefore I despise myself,

and I repent in dust and ashes!

VII. The Epilogue (42:7-17)

7After 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. 8So 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.”

9So 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.

10So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job. 11So 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.

12So 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. 13And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. 15Nowhere 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.

16After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17And so Job died, old and full of days.