Job’s Repentance and Restoration

42 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

“I know that You (A)can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.
You asked, (B)‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
(C)Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

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Job

42 Then Job replied to the Lord:

“I know that you can do all things;(A)
    no purpose of yours can be thwarted.(B)
You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’(C)
    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me to know.(D)

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“I have (A)heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.
Therefore I (B)abhor[a] myself,
And repent in dust and ashes.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:6 despise

My ears had heard of you(A)
    but now my eyes have seen you.(B)
Therefore I despise myself(C)
    and repent(D) in dust and ashes.”(E)

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12 Now the Lord blessed (A)the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had (B)fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. 13 (C)He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first [a]Jemimah, the name of the second [b]Keziah, and the name of the third [c]Keren-Happuch. 15 In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

16 After this Job (D)lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:14 Lit. Handsome as the Day
  2. Job 42:14 Cassia, a fragrance
  3. Job 42:14 Lit. The Horn of Color or The Colorful Ray

12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

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