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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v18_42_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.1" class="v18_42_1">1</span>Then Job answered the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><h5 class="sp">Job</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v18_42_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.2" class="v18_42_2">2</span>I know, <span class="nd">Lord</span>, that you are all-powerful;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_42_2">that you can do everything you want.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_42_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.3" class="v18_42_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.42.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You ask how I dare question your wisdom</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_42_3">when I am so very ignorant.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_42_3">I talked about things I did not understand,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_42_3">about marvels too great for me to know.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_42_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.4" class="v18_42_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.42.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You told me to listen while you spoke</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_42_4">and to try to answer your questions.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_42_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.5" class="v18_42_5">5</span>In the past I knew only what others had told me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_42_5">but now I have seen you with my own eyes.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_42_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.6" class="v18_42_6">6</span>So I am ashamed of all I have said</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_42_6">and repent in dust and ashes.</span></p><h3 class="s">Conclusion</h3><p class="par"><span class="v18_42_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.7" class="v18_42_7">7</span>After the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, the way my servant Job did. </span><span class="v18_42_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.8" class="v18_42_8">8</span>Now take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and offer them as a sacrifice for yourselves. Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer and not disgrace you the way you deserve. You did not speak the truth about me as he did.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v18_42_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.9" class="v18_42_9">9</span>Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar did what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had told them to do, and the <span class="nd">Lord</span> answered Job's prayer.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v18_42_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.10" class="v18_42_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.42.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then, after Job had prayed for his three friends, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had had before. </span><span class="v18_42_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.11" class="v18_42_11">11</span>All Job's brothers and sisters and former friends came to visit him and feasted with him in his house. They expressed their sympathy and comforted him for all the troubles the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had brought on him. Each of them gave him some money and a gold ring.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v18_42_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.12" class="v18_42_12">12</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> blessed the last part of Job's life even more than he had blessed the first. Job owned fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, two thousand head of cattle, and one thousand donkeys. </span><span class="v18_42_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.13" class="v18_42_13">13</span>He was the father of seven sons and three daughters. </span><span class="v18_42_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.14" class="v18_42_14">14</span>He called the oldest daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the youngest Keren Happuch.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.42.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v18_42_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.15" class="v18_42_15">15</span>There were no other women in the whole world as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them a share of the inheritance along with their brothers.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v18_42_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.16" class="v18_42_16">16</span>Job lived a hundred and forty years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. </span><span class="v18_42_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.42.17" class="v18_42_17">17</span>And then he died at a very great age.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">42.14: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In Hebrew the names of Job's daughters suggest beauty both by their sound and by their meaning. </char><char style="fq" closed="false">JEMIMAH means “dove”; KEZIAH means “cassia,” a variety of cinnamon used as a perfume; and KEREN HAPPUCH means a small box used for eye make-up.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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