| 1 | Then Job answered the LORD: |
| 2 | “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. |
| 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. |
| 4 | ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.’ |
| 5 | I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; |
| 6 | therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” |
| 7 | After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD 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. |
| 8 | Now 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.” |
| 9 | So 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. |
| 10 | And 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. |
| 11 | Then 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 LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring. |
| 12 | The LORD 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. |
| 13 | He also had seven sons and three daughters. |
| 14 | He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. |
| 15 | In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. |
| 16 | After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children’s children, four generations. |
| 17 | And Job died, old and full of days. |
