The Lord Speaks to Job's So-Called Friends |
Job 42:1-17 Book of Job [in Smaller Chunks] |
Then, Job answered the Lord & said, I know that you can do everything & that no thought can be [withheld] from You. [I'm] he, who hides counsel without knowledge. Therefore, I've uttered [what] I [didn't understand;] things too wonderful for me, which I [didn't know.] |
[Listen,] I [beg] You, and I will speak. I will demand [questions] of You & You will declare [the answers] to me. I have heard of You [by listening with my ears,] but now [my eyes] see You. [For this reason,] I [loathe] myself & repent in dust & ashes. |
And it [happened,] after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz, the Temanite, My [anger grows] against you & against your 2 friends, for you haven’t spoken of Me, the [things] that [are] right, like My servant, Job, has. |
Therefore, take [for] you now: 7 [bulls] & 7 rams & go to My servant, Job & offer a burnt offering for yourselves & My servant, Job, shall pray for you: for I will accept him: lest I deal with you [according to] your [lack of good judgment,] in that, you haven't spoken of Me [what] is right, [like] My servant, Job. |
So, Eliphaz, the Temanite, Bildad, the Shuhite & Zophar, the Naamathite, went & did according as the Lord commanded them. The Lord also accepted Job. And when [Job] prayed for his friends, the Lord [returned Job's possessions that had been captive] & the Lord also gave Job twice as much as he had before. |
Then, all [Job's brothers] & all his sisters & all [who had] been his [acquaintances] before, came there to him. And [they ate] bread with [Job] in his house & they [mourned with] him & comforted him over all the [adversity] that the Lord had brought upon [Job.] |
Also, every man gave him a piece of money & everyone [gave] a gold earring. So, the Lord blessed the latter [years] of Job, more than his beginning. For [Job] had 14,000 sheep; 6,000 camels; 1,000 yoke of oxen & 1,000 [female donkeys.] |
[Job] also had 7 sons & 3 daughters. And [Job] called the name of the 1st, Jemima, [a.k.a. Jemimah;] the name of the 2nd, Kezia, [a.k.a. Keziah] & the name of the 3rd, Keren-Happuch. There were no women found so fair in all that land, as the daughter of Job. And their father gave them [an] inheritance among their [brothers.] |
After this, Job lived 140 years. And [Job] saw his sons & his sons' sons, even [until] 4 generations. So, Job died, being old & full of [years.] |
[Job 5:25-26 You shall also know that your [descendants] shall be great & your offspring [like] the grass of the earth. You shall come to your grave [at your] full age, like a shock of corn comes in [its] season.] |