Job 42
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Job Replies to the Lord
42 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 I[a] know that You can do anything
and no plan of Yours can be thwarted.(A)
3 You asked, “Who is this who conceals My counsel with ignorance?”(B)
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to[b] know.(C)
4 You said, “Listen now, and I will speak.
When I question(D) you, you will inform Me.”
5 I had heard rumors about You,
but now my eyes(E) have seen You.
6 Therefore I take back my words
and repent in dust and ashes.[c]
7 After the Lord had finished speaking[d] to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has. 8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you.(F) I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.” 9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
God Restores Job
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.(G) 11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances(H) came to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a qesitah[e](I) and a gold earring.(J)
12 So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.(K) 15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.
16 Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 Then Job died, old and full of days.(L)
约伯记 42
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
約伯認罪
42 約伯回答耶和華說：
2 “我知道你萬事都能作，
你的旨意是不能攔阻的。
3 這以無知無識的言語使 神的旨意模糊不清的是誰呢？
所以我說了我所不明白的；
這些事太奇妙，是我不曉得的。
4 求你聽我，我要說話；
我要問你，你要告訴我。
5 我從前只是風聞有你，
但現在親眼看見你。
6 因此我厭惡自己，
在塵土和灰燼中懊悔。”
耶和華責約伯三友
7 耶和華對約伯說了這些話以後，就對提幔人以利法說：“我要向你和你的兩個朋友生氣，因為你們講論我，不如我的僕人約伯說的對。 8 現在你們要為自己取七頭公牛、七隻公羊，到我的僕人約伯那裡去，為你們獻上燔祭，我的僕人約伯就替你們禱告；我悅納他的禱告，就不按照你們的愚昧待你們。你們講論我，不如我的僕人約伯說的對。” 9 於是提幔人以利法、書亞人比勒達、拿瑪人瑣法，照著耶和華吩咐他們的去行，耶和華就悅納約伯的禱告。
加倍賜福約伯
10 約伯替他的朋友禱告，耶和華就恢復約伯原來的景況，還照約伯以前所有的一切加倍賜給他。 11 約伯的眾兄弟姊妹和以前認識的人都來見他，在他家裡與他一同吃飯，又因耶和華降予他的一切災禍都對他表同情，安慰他，每人送他一塊銀子和一個金環。 12 這樣，耶和華後來賜給約伯的福比先前更多：他有一萬四千隻羊、六千匹駱駝、一千對牛、一千頭母驢。 13 他也有七個兒子和三個女兒。 14 他給長女起名叫耶米瑪，次女名叫基洗亞，三女名叫基連．哈樸。 15 在那全地中，找不到像約伯女兒那麼美貌的婦女。她們的父親在她們兄弟中間把產業分給她們。
約伯逝世
16 此後，約伯又活了一百四十年，得見他的兒孫到四代。 17 這樣，約伯年紀老邁，壽終而死。
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