Job Submits Himself to Yahweh

1And Job answered YHWH and said:

2“I know that You are able to do all things,

and a plan from You cannot be thwarted.

3‘Who is this,

concealing counsel without knowledge?†’

So I have declared, and did not understand—

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

4‘Listen now, and I will speak.

I will question you, and you shall inform Me.†’

5By the hearing of the ear I had heard of You,

and now my eye has seen You.

6Upon thus I despise it,

and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Yahweh Rebukes Job’s Friends

7And it came to pass, after YHWH had spoken these words to Job, that YHWH said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is kindled against you, and against the two friends of yours, for you have⁺ not spoken of Me accurately as My servant Job has. 8And now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And Job My servant shall pray for you⁺ (for surely I will lift his face), so as not to deal with your⁺ folly, for you⁺ have not spoken of Me accurately, as My servant Job has.”

9Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according to what YHWH had spoken to them; and YHWH lifted up the face of Job.

Yahweh Blesses Job

10And YHWH turned back the captivity of Job, in his praying for his friends; and YHWH added to all that was unto Job—to double. 11All his brothers, and all his sisters, and all the faces of those knowing him came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they nodded to him and comforted him over all the adversity that YHWH had brought upon him. And each man gave to him one kesitah,† and each man one ring of gold.

12And YHWH blessed the latter of Job more than his first, and there were unto him fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 13And there were unto him seven sons and three daughters. 14And he called the name of the first Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 15And there were not found women as beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the land; and their father gave to them an inheritance among their brothers.

16And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and the sons of his sons, four generations. 17And Job died, old and full of days.