Job Chapter 42

From The Open Bible Project

42:1 Then Job answered Yahweh,

42:2 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

• (a) No thought so secret but you see it, nor anything that you think but that you can bring it to pass.

42:3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

• (b) Is there any but I? for this God laid to his charge, (Job 38:2).
• (c) I confess in this my ignorance, and that I spoke of what I did not know.

42:4 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

• (d) He shows that he will be God�s scholar to learn of him.

42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

• (e) I knew you only before by hearsay, but now you have caused me to feel what you are to me, that I may resign myself over to you.

42:6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

42:7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

• (f) You took in hand an evil cause, in that you condemned him by his outward afflictions, and not comforted him with my mercies.
• (g) Who had a good cause, but handled it evil.

42:8 Now therefore, take to yourselves 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 him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."

• (h) When you have reconciled yourselves to him for the faults that you have committed against him, he will pray for you, and I will hear him.

42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

42:10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

• (i) He delivered him out of the affliction he was in.

42:11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a [15] piece of money, [See Job Footnotes 15] and everyone a ring of gold.

• (k) That is, all his kindred, read (Job 19:13).

42:12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

• (l) God made him twice as rich in cattle as he was before, and gave him as many children as he had taken from him.

42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

42:14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

• (m) That is, of long life, or beautiful as the day.
• (n) As pleasant as cassia or sweet spice.
• (o) That is, the horn of beauty.

42:15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

42:16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.

42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.