Job
1 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 ‘I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, “Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?”
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 ‘You said, “Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.”
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.’
Epilogue
7 After the Lordhad said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, ‘I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.’
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lordtold them; and the Lordaccepted Job’s prayer.
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lordrestored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lordhad brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silverand a gold ring.
12 The Lordblessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.
Footnotes for the Book of Job
a1Hebrewthe sons of God
b10The Hebrew word renderedfoolishdenotes moral deficiency.
a17HebrewShaddai; here and throughout Job
a20A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic TextI have become a burden to myself.
a9Orof Leo
b19See Septuagint; Hebrewme.
a12Orwild donkey can be born tame
a15OrHe will surely slay me; I have no hope – / yet I will
a20OrMy friends treat me with scorn
a20Oronly by my gums
b24Orand
c25Orvindicator
d25Oron my grave
e26OrAnd after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then
f26Ordestroyed, / apart from
g28Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscriptsme
h29Orsword, / that you may come to know the Almighty
a13Orin an instant
b24The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
c30Orwicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to
d33Orthem, / as a countless throng went
a11The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
a11Septuagint, Aquila and Vulgate; HebrewThey dam up
b22HebrewAbaddon
a3Orgnawed
b4Orfuel
c12The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
d18Hebrew; Septuagintpower he grasps my clothing
a3Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal traditionJob, and so had condemned God
b8OrSpirit; also in verse 18
c9Ormany; orgreat
a14OrSpirit
a12Orwill cross the river
b20The meaning of the Hebrew for verses 18-20 is uncertain.
c27Ordistil from the mist as rain
d31Ornourishes
e33Orannounces his coming – / the One zealous against evil
a7Hebrewthe sons of God
b31Septuagint; Hebrewbeauty
c32Orthe morning star in its season
d32Orout Leo
e33Ortheir
f36That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile
g36That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
a11Hebrewhim a kesitah; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.
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