Job 42

1 Forsooth Job answered to the Lord, and said,⋮

2 I know, that thou mayest do all things, and that no thought or nothing is hid from thee.⋮

3 Who is this, that covereth counsel without knowing? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and those things that pass over-measure my knowing.⋮

4 Hear thou, and I shall speak; I shall ask thee, and answer thou to me.⋮

5 By hearing of ear I have heard thee, but now mine eye seeth thee.⋮

6 Therefore I reprove myself, and do penance in dead spark and ashes.⋮

7 And after that the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My strong vengeance is wroth against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken before me rightful or right things, as my servant Job.⋮

8 Therefore take ye to you seven bulls, and seven rams; and go ye to my servant Job, and offer ye burnt sacrifice for you. Forsooth Job, my servant, shall pray for you; I shall receive his face, that folly be not areckoned to you; certainly ye have not spoken before me rightful or right thing, as hath my servant Job.⋮

9 Therefore Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went, and did, as the Lord had spoken to them; and the Lord received the face of Job.⋮

10 Also the Lord was converted to the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord added all things double, whichever were of Job.⋮

11 And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before, came to him; and they ate bread with him in his house, and they moved their head upon him; and they comforted him on all the evil, that the Lord had brought in upon him; and they gave to him each man a sheep, and a golden earring.⋮

12 Forsooth the Lord blessed the last things of Job, more than the beginning of him; and fourteen thousand of sheep were made to him, and six thousand of camels, and a thousand yokes of oxen, and a thousand female asses.⋮

13 And he had seven sons, and three daughters;⋮

14 and he called the name of the one daughter Jemima, and the name of the second daughter Kezia, and the name of the third daughter he called Kerenhappuch, that is, a horn of women’s ointment.⋮

15 And there were not found so fair women in all the land, as were the daughters of Job; and their father gave heritage to them among their brethren.⋮

16 Forsooth Job lived after these beatings, or scourgings, an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and the sons of his sons, till to the fourth generation;⋮

17 and he was dead eld or he died old, and full of days, that is, he had length and prosperity of life.⋮