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”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,</p><p class="poem">things too wondrous for me to<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.42.3.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> know.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.3.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You said, “Listen now, and I will speak.</p><p class="poem">When I question<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> you, you will inform me.”</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I had heard reports about you,</p><p class="poem">but now my eyes<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> have seen you.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them;</p><p class="poem">I am dust and ashes.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.42.6.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.42.6.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">B</span></a></p></blockquote><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>After the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> had finished speaking<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.42.7.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> had told them, and the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> accepted Job’s prayer.</p><h3 class="head1">God Restores Job</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>After Job had prayed for his friends, the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.42.11.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.11.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> and a gold earring.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.11.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He also had seven sons and three daughters. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.42.17" /> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Job died, old and full of days.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.42.17.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><br /><section id="footnotes-Job.42" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Job.42.2.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.2">42:2</a></span> Alt Hb tradition reads <span class="italic">You</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.42.3.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.3">42:3</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">me, and I did not</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.42.6.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.6">42:6</a></span> LXX reads <span class="italic">I despise myself and melt; I consider myself dust and ashes</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.42.6.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.6">42:6</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">I reject and I relent, concerning dust and ashes</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.42.7.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.7">42:7</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">speaking these words</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.42.11.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.11">42:11</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">a qesitah</span> ; the value of this currency is unknown</aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Job.42" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Job.42.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.2">42:2</a></span> Gn 18:14; Jr 23:20; Mt 19:26</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.3">42:3</a></span> Jb 34:35; 35:16; 38:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.3.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.3">42:3</a></span> Ps 40:5; 131:1; 139:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.4">42:4</a></span> Jb 38:3; 40:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.5">42:5</a></span> Jb 19:27; Ps 123:1–2; 141:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.8">42:8</a></span> Gn 20:17; Nm 23:1; 1Jn 5:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.10">42:10</a></span> Ps 14:7; Is 40:2; Mt 5:44</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.11">42:11</a></span> Jb 2:11; 19:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.11.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.11">42:11</a></span> Gn 33:19; Jos 24:32</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.11.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.11">42:11</a></span> Gn 24:22; 35:4; Hs 2:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.14">42:14</a></span> Ps 45:8; Sg 2:14; Jr 4:30</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.42.17.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.42.17">42:17</a></span> Gn 25:8; 35:29; 1Ch 29:28</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Job.42" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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