1. Then Job replied to the Lord:
2. ‘I know that you can do all things;no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3. You asked, “Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?”Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,things too wonderful for me to know.
4. ‘You said, “Listen now, and I will speak;I will question you,and you shall answer me.”
5. My ears had heard of youbut now my eyes have seen you.
6. Therefore I despise myselfand repent in dust and ashes.’
7. After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, ‘I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
8. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.’
9. So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
10. After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
11. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12. The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
13. And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
14. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
15. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16. After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17. And so Job died, an old man and full of years.Footnotes for the Book of Joba 1 Hebrew the sons of Godb 10 The Hebrew word rendered foolish denotes moral deficiency.a 17 Hebrew Shaddai; here and throughout Joba 20 A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text I have become a burden to myself.a 9 Or of Leob 19 See Septuagint; Hebrew me.a 12 Or wild donkey can be born tamea 15 Or He will surely slay me; I have no hope – / yet I willa 20 Or My friends treat me with scorna 20 Or only by my gumsb 24 Or andc 25 Or vindicatord 25 Or on my gravee 26 Or And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / thenf 26 Or destroyed, / apart fromg 28 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts meh 29 Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almightya 13 Or in an instantb 24 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.c 30 Or wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth tod 33 Or them, / as a countless throng wenta 11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.a 11 Septuagint, Aquila and Vulgate; Hebrew They dam upb 22 Hebrew Abaddona 3 Or gnawedb 4 Or fuelc 12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.d 18 Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothinga 3 Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition Job, and so had condemned Godb 8 Or Spirit; also in verse 18c 9 Or many; or greata 14 Or Spirita 12 Or will cross the riverb 20 The meaning of the Hebrew for verses 18-20 is uncertain.c 27 Or distil from the mist as raind 31 Or nourishese 33 Or announces his coming – / the One zealous against evila 7 Hebrew the sons of Godb 31 Septuagint; Hebrew beautyc 32 Or the morning star in its seasond 32 Or out Leoe 33 Or theirf 36 That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nileg 36 That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.a 11 Hebrew him a kesitah; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.