Job’s Repentance and Restoration

1 ThenJob answered Yahweh and said,

2 “I know that you can do all things,

and any scheme from you will not be thwarted.

3 ‘Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I uttered, butI did not understand;

things too wonderful for me,but I did not know.

4 ‘Hear and I will speak;

I will question you, theninform me.’

5 By the ear’s hearing I heard of you,

butnow my eye has seen you.

6 Therefore I despise myself

and repent in dust and ashes.”

7 And thenafter Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath has been kindledagainst youand against the two of your friends, for youhave not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has.

8 So then,take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you,for I will certainly accept his prayer,so that it will not be done with youaccording to your folly, for youhave not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has.”

9 SoEliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and Yahweh accepted Job’s prayer.

10 ThenYahweh returned Job’s fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. ThusYahweh increased all that Job had twice as much as before.

11 Soall his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had known him beforecame to him, and they ate breadwith him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disasterthat Yahweh had brought upon him. Theneach one gave to him one piece of money, and each one gave to him one ornamental ring of gold.

12 SoYahweh blessed Job’s latter days more than his beginning. Thus he hadfourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

13 And he hadseven sons and three daughters.

14 And he called the name of the first Jemimah and the name of the second Keziah and the name of the third Qeren-Happuk.

15 And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job’s daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers.

16 And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his grandsonsfor four generations.

17 ThenJob died old and full of days.