Job

Job said in reply to GOD:

I know that You can do everything,That nothing You propose is impossible for You.

Who is this who obscures counsel without knowledge?Indeed, I spoke without understandingOf things beyond me, which I did not know.

Hear now, and I will speak;I will ask, and You will inform me.

I had heard You with my ears,But now I see You with my eyes;

Therefore, I recant and relent,Being but dust and ashes.

After GOD had spoken these words to Job, GOD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am incensed at you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me as did My servant Job.

Now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. And let Job, My servant, pray for you; for to him I will show favor and not treat you vilely, since you have not spoken the truth about Me as did My servant Job.”

Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as GOD had told them, and GOD showed favor to Job.

GOD restored Job’s fortunes when he prayed on behalf of his friends, and GOD gave Job twice what he had before.

All his brothers and sisters and all his former friends came to him and had a meal with him in his house. They consoled and comforted him for all the misfortune that GOD had brought upon him. Each gave him one kesitahakesitah A unit of unknown value. and each one gold ring.

Thus GOD blessed the latter years of Job’s life more than the former. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand jennies.

He also had seven sons and three daughters.

The first he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.

Nowhere in the land were women as beautiful as Job’s daughters to be found. Their father gave them estates together with their brothers.

Afterward, Job lived one hundred and forty years to see four generations of children and grandchildren.

So Job died old and contented.