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Job 42 Darby Translation

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 1890
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1 And Job answered Jehovah and said, 2 I know that thou canst do everything, and that thou canst be hindered in no thought of thine. 3 Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and inform me. 5 I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee: 6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes. 7 And it came to pass after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken rightly of me, like my servant Job. 8 And now, take for yourselves seven bullocks 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, for ye have not spoken of me rightly, like my servant Job. 9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job. 10 And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring. 12 And Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. 13 And he had seven sons and three daughters. 14 And 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 in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. 16 And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. 17 And Job died, 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

  • 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

  • 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

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)