Job’s Confession

42 Then Job answered the Lord and said,

“I know that (A)You can do all things,
And that no plan is impossible for You.
‘Who is this who (B)conceals advice without knowledge?’
Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
Things (C)too wonderful for me, which I do not know.
‘Please listen, and I will speak;
I will (D)ask You, and You instruct me.’
I have (E)heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my (F)eye sees You;
Therefore I retract,
And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.”

God Is Displeased with Job’s Friends

It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, (G)as My servant Job has. Now therefore, take for yourselves (H)seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a (I)burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will (J)pray for you. (K)For I will [a]accept him so as not to do with you as your foolishness deserves, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has.” So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord told them; and the Lord [b]accepted Job.

God Restores Job’s Fortunes

10 The Lord also (L)restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased double all that Job had. 11 Then all his (M)brothers, all his sisters, and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they (N)sympathized with him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him a [c]piece of money, and each a ring of gold. 12 (O)The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; (P)and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 13 (Q)He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15 In all the land no women were found as beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritances among their brothers. 16 After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations. 17 (R)And Job died, an old man and full of days.

Footnotes

  1. Job 42:8 Lit lift up his face
  2. Job 42:9 Lit lifted up the face of
  3. Job 42:11 Heb qesitah

42 A Job a atebodd yr Arglwydd, ac a ddywedodd, Myfi a wn y gelli di bob peth; ac na atelir un meddwl oddi wrthyt. Pwy ydyw yr hwn sydd yn cuddio cyngor heb wybodaeth? am hynny y lleferais yr hyn nis deellais; pethau rhy ryfedd i mi, y rhai nis gwyddwn. Gwrando, atolwg, a myfi a lefaraf: gofynnaf i ti, dysg dithau finnau. Myfi a glywais â’m clustiau sôn amdanat: ond yn awr fy llygad a’th welodd di. Am hynny y mae yn ffiaidd gennyf fi fy hun; ac yr ydwyf yn edifarhau mewn llwch a lludw.

Ac wedi dywedyd o’r Arglwydd y geiriau hyn wrth Job, yr Arglwydd a ddywedodd wrth Eliffas y Temaniad, Fy nigofaint a gyneuodd yn dy erbyn di, ac yn erbyn dy ddau gyfaill; am na ddywedasoch amdanaf fi yn uniawn fel fy ngwasanaethwr Job. Yn awr gan hynny cymerwch i chwi saith o fustych, a saith o hyrddod, ac ewch at fy ngwasanaethwr Job, ac offrymwch boethaberth drosoch; a gweddïed fy ngwasanaethwr Job drosoch: canys mi a dderbyniaf ei wyneb ef: fel na wnelwyf i chwi yn ôl eich ffolineb, am na ddywedasoch yr uniawn amdanaf fi, fel fy ngwasanaethwr Job. Felly Eliffas y Temaniad, a Bildad y Suhiad, a Soffar y Naamathiad, a aethant ac a wnaethant fel y dywedasai yr Arglwydd wrthynt. A’r Arglwydd a dderbyniodd wyneb Job. 10 Yna yr Arglwydd a ddychwelodd gaethiwed Job, pan weddïodd efe dros ei gyfeillion: a’r Arglwydd a chwanegodd yr hyn oll a fuasai gan Job yn ddauddyblyg. 11 Yna ei holl geraint, a’i holl garesau, a phawb o’i gydnabod ef o’r blaen, a ddaethant ato, ac a fwytasant fwyd gydag ef yn ei dŷ, ac a gwynasant iddo, ac a’i cysurasant ef, am yr holl ddrwg a ddygasai yr Arglwydd arno ef: a hwy a roddasant iddo bob un ddarn o arian, a phob un dlws o aur. 12 Felly yr Arglwydd a fendithiodd ddiwedd Job yn fwy na’i ddechreuad: canys yr oedd ganddo bedair mil ar ddeg o ddefaid, a chwe mil o gamelod, a mil o gyplau ychen, a mil o asynnod. 13 Ac yr oedd iddo saith o feibion, a thair o ferched. 14 Ac efe a alwodd enw y gyntaf, Jemima; ac enw yr ail Ceseia; ac enw y drydedd, Ceren‐happuc. 15 Ac ni cheid gwragedd mor lân â merched Job yn yr holl wlad honno: a’u tad a roddes iddynt hwy etifeddiaeth ymhlith eu brodyr. 16 A Job a fu fyw wedi hyn gant a deugain o flynyddoedd; ac a welodd o’i feibion, a meibion ei feibion, bedair cenhedlaeth. 17 Felly Job a fu farw yn hen, ac yn llawn o ddyddiau.