Job
Summary
Job Chapter 42 is the final chapter of the book, concluding with Job's humble submission and his miraculous restoration. Job acknowledges God's absolute sovereignty, saying, "I know that you can do all things." He repents for speaking of things he did not understand. The LORD then rebukes Job's three friends for not speaking what is right about Him, and tells them to seek Job's prayers. Job's prosperity is restored twofold: he receives new children and vast wealth, and he lives to a ripe old age. The book ends with Job dying "old and full of days," his integrity vindicated and his relationship with God restored.
Then Job replied to the LORD:
"I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted."
"You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know."
"You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.'"
"My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you."
"Therefore I despise [1] myself and repent in dust and ashes."
After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has."
"So now take seven bullocks and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has."
So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.
After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
The first daughter he named Jemima, the second Kezia and the third Keren-Happuch.
Nowhere in all the land were there women as fair as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
And so Job died, an old man and full of years.