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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 42 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/42.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Job 42</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/41.htm" title="Job 41">◄</a> Job 42 <a href="../psalms/1.htm" title="Psalm 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/42-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Job Submits Himself to the LORD<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said to the Lord,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD Rebukes Job’s Friends<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, <i>that</i> the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job <i>has</i>. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD Blesses Job<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them <i>their</i> sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and <i>so did</i> all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachms' weight of gold, even of unstamped <i>gold</i>. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, <i>more</i> than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer <i>women</i> than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Job lived after <i>his</i> affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation. <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Job died, an old man and full of days: <font color=blue>(42:17A)</font> and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. <font color=blue>(42:17B)</font> This man is described in the Syriac book <i>as</i> living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; <font color=blue>(42:17C)</font> and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. <font color=blue>(42:17D)</font> And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. <font color=blue>(42:17E)</font> And <i>his</i> friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad sovof the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Minaeans.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/41.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 41"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 41" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>