he was angry also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

I gave you my attention, but there was, in fact, no one who confuted Job, no one among you who answered his words.

Elihu Rebukes Job

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

Pay heed, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,

‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.’

Would that Job were tried to the limit, because his answers are those of the wicked.

Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”

“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

The Lord Answers Job

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:

And the Lord said to Job:

Job’s Response to God

Then Job answered the Lord:

God’s Challenge to Job

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:

Job Is Humbled and Satisfied

Then Job answered the Lord:

Job’s Friends Are Humiliated

After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

Now therefore take seven bulls 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 I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.”

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

Job’s Fortunes Are Restored Twofold

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.

In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.

After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.

And Job died, old and full of days.

even if Noah, Daniel, and Job, these three, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, says the Lord God.