| NET Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1Then Job answered the LORD: | 1Then Job answered the LORD and said: |
| 2"I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted; | 2“I know that you can do all things, and that 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. | 3‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. |
| 4You said, 'Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.' | 4‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’ |
| 5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you. | 5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; |
| 6Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes! | 6therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” |
| 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. | 7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of 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." | 8Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of 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. | 9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer. |
| 10So the LORD restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the LORD doubled all that had belonged to Job. | 10And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. |
| 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. | 11Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. |
| 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. | 12And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And 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. | 13He had also seven sons and three daughters. |
| 14The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. | 14And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of 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. | 15And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. |
| 16After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. | 16And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations. |
| 17And so Job died, old and full of days. | 17And Job died, an old man, and full of days. |
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