 1 Job answered the Lord and said, 2 I know that you can do all and not any purpose is withheld from you. 3 Who is the one who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken what I did not understand. Things too wonderful for me. Yes, I did not know. 4 Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak. I will ask you and you will cause me to know. 5 I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear. But now my eye has seen you. 6 Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes. 7 After the Lord spoke these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 Now take seven young bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering. And my servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do to you according to your foolishness because you have not spoken what is right about me like my servant Job. 9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did as the Lord commanded them. And the Lord accepted Job. 10 The Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord added double to Job all that had been his. 11 All his brothers and sisters and all those who had known him before came to him. They ate bread with him in his house and consoled him and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought on him. Each one also gave him money and a gold ring. 12 The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than the beginning. For he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He called the name of the first, Jemima. And the name of the second, Keziah. And the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. 15 In all the land there were no women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. 16 After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his sons and his sons' sons four generations. 17 Then Job died, being old and full of days.
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