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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/42.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job’s Confession and Repentance</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I know that you can do all things,</span><br /><span class="indent">and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,</span><br /><span class="indent">things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">‘Hear, and I will speak;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will question you, and you make it known to me.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,</span><br /><span class="indent">but now my eye sees you;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">therefore I despise myself,</span><br /><span class="indent">and repent<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or and am comforted">a</a></sup></span> in dust and ashes.”</span></p> <p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Rebukes Job’s Friends</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>After the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had spoken these words to Job, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had told them, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> accepted Job’s prayer.</p> <p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Restores Job’s Fortunes</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave Job twice as much as he had before. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or disaster">b</a></sup></span> that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew a qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value">c</a></sup></span> and a ring of gold.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He had also seven sons and three daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Job died, an old man, and full of days.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">and</span> am comforted</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>disaster</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">a</span> qesitah</i>; a unit of money of unknown value<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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