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Job Is Humbled and Satisfied

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Then Job answered the L ord:

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“I know that you can do all things,

and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

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‘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.

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‘Hear, and I will speak;

I will question you, and you declare to me.’

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

but now my eye sees you;

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therefore I despise myself,

and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job’s Friends Are Humiliated

⁷ After the L ord had spoken these words to Job, the L ord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of 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 for yourselves a burnt offering; 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 done.” ⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the L ord had told them; and the L ord accepted Job’s prayer.

Job’s Fortunes Are Restored Twofold

¹⁰ And the L ord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the L ord gave Job twice as much as he had before. ¹¹Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the L ord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring. ¹²The L ord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. ¹³He also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. ¹⁵In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. ¹⁶After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children’s children, four generations. ¹⁷And Job died, old and full of days.