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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
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  • Protestant (66 books)
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  • 1965
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1 And Job said in answer to the Lord,
1 Then Job answered Yahweh:
2 I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.
2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
4 You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’
5 Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
9 And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
10 And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
10 Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
11 Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
12 And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;
14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
15 And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.
15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
16 And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
17 And Job came to his end, old and full of days.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

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  • Jemimah

    First daughter of Job

    The first of the three daughters born to Job after his restoration, who received an inheritance among her brothers.

    Cited in the guide: Job 42:14

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  • Keren-happuch

    Third daughter of Job

    The third of the three daughters born to Job after his restoration, who received an inheritance among her brothers.

    Cited in the guide: Job 42:14

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  • Keziah

    Second daughter of Job

    The second of the three daughters born to Job after his restoration, who received an inheritance among her brothers.

    Cited in the guide: Job 42:14

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Cross references (15)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Matthew 19:26; Mark 10:27; Genesis 18:14; Hebrews 4:12–13; Jeremiah 32:17
  2. 3 Psalm 131:1; Job 38:2; Psalm 139:6; Psalm 40:5; Proverbs 30:2–4
  3. 4 Job 40:7; Job 38:3; Genesis 18:30–32; Genesis 18:27
  4. 5 Ephesians 1:17–18; Romans 10:17; John 12:45; Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 6:1
  5. 6 Ezra 9:6; 1 Timothy 1:13–16; James 4:7–10; Job 40:3–4; Daniel 9:3
  6. 7 Job 32:2–3; Job 11:5–6; Job 32:5; Job 2:11; Psalm 51:4
  7. 8 Numbers 23:1; James 5:16; Psalm 103:10; Genesis 20:17; 1 Chronicles 15:26
  8. 9 Hebrews 11:8; Acts 9:6; Ecclesiastes 9:7; Proverbs 3:11–12; Matthew 7:24
  9. 10 Deuteronomy 30:3; Job 8:6–7; Proverbs 22:4; Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 61:7
  10. 11 Job 2:11; Job 19:13–14; Genesis 24:22; Proverbs 16:7; Hebrews 12:12
  11. 12 Job 8:7; Ecclesiastes 7:8; Proverbs 10:22; Genesis 24:35; Psalm 144:13–15
  12. 13 Job 1:2; Psalm 127:3; Psalm 107:41; Isaiah 49:20
  13. 15 Numbers 27:7; Psalm 144:12; Joshua 18:4; Acts 7:20; Joshua 15:18–19
  14. 16 Proverbs 17:6; Genesis 50:23; Psalm 128:6; Genesis 25:7; Genesis 47:28
  15. 17 Genesis 25:8; Genesis 15:15; Job 5:26; Psalm 91:16; Deuteronomy 6:2

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 42:5 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XXII, Chapters 28–29)

    … of the holy Job while yet in this mortal body, when he says to God, "I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee: wherefore I abhor myself, and melt away, and count myself dust and ashes;" although there is no reason why we should not understand this of the eye of …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  2. Quotes verse 42:5 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXXIII)

    … hearing such things, I being nothing?" And again, "I have heard of Thee before, as far as hearing of the ear; but now mine eye hath seen Thee; wherefore I have made myself vile, and have melted away; and I accounted myself earth and ashes." This fortitude then, this moderation, of him that was before law and grace, let us …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)