Job 42
New American Standard Bible 1995
Job’s Confession
1Then Job answered the Lord and said,2“I know that 1You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.3‘Who is this that 2hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things 3too wonderful for me, which I did not know.4‘Hear, now, and I will speak; I will 4ask You, and You instruct me.’5I have 5heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my 6eye sees You;6Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes.”
God Displeased with Job’s Friends
7It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right 7as My servant Job has. 8Now therefore, take for yourselves 8seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a 9burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will 10pray for you. 11For I will 12accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.” 9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord told them; and the Lord 13accepted Job.
God Restores Job’s Fortunes
10The Lord 14restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. 11Then all his 15brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they 16consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one 17piece of money, and each a ring of gold. 1218The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; 19and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys. 1320He had seven sons and three daughters. 14He named the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15In all the land no women were found so fair as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. 16After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations. 1721And Job died, an old man and full of days.
Notes
- 1. Job 42:2 Gen 18:14; Matt 19:26 ↩
- 2. Job 42:3 Job 38:2 ↩
- 3. Job 42:3 Ps 40:5; 131:1; 139:6 ↩
- 4. Job 42:4 Job 38:3; 40:7 ↩
- 5. Job 42:5 Job 26:14; Rom 10:17 ↩
- 6. Job 42:5 Is 6:5; Eph 1:17, 18 ↩
- 7. Job 42:7 Job 40:3-5; 42:1-6 ↩
- 8. Job 42:8 Num 23:1 ↩
- 9. Job 42:8 Job 1:5 ↩
- 10. Job 42:8 Gen 20:17; James 5:16; 1 John 5:16 ↩
- 11. Job 42:8 Job 22:30 ↩
- 12. Job 42:8 Lit lift up his face ↩
- 13. Job 42:9 Lit lifted up the face of ↩
- 14. Job 42:10 Deut 30:3; Job 1:2, 3; Ps 14:7; 85:1-3; 126:1-6 ↩
- 15. Job 42:11 Job 19:13 ↩
- 16. Job 42:11 Job 2:11 ↩
- 17. Job 42:11 Heb qesitah ↩
- 18. Job 42:12 Job 1:10; 8:7; James 5:11 ↩
- 19. Job 42:12 Job 1:3 ↩
- 20. Job 42:13 Job 1:2 ↩
- 21. Job 42:17 Gen 15:15; 25:8; Job 5:26 ↩
Commentaries on Job 42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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