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Job 42 King James Version (with Apocrypha)

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1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 2 I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee. 3 Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have 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 was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath]. 8 Therefore take unto you now 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, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job. 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. 10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; 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 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, [even] four generations. 17 So Job died, [being] old and full of days.

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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

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

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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).

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“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)