Job 42

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¹Then Job answered the Lord and said, ²“I know that You can do all things, And that no plan is impossible for You. ✦ ³‘Who is this who conceals advice without knowledge?’ Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I do not know. ✦ ⁴‘Please listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.’ ✦ ⁵“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; ✦ ⁶Therefore I retract, And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.” ✦ ⁷It 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, as My servant Job has. ✦ ⁸Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will 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.” ✦ ⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job. ✦ ¹⁰The Lord also restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased double all that Job had. ✦ ¹¹Then all his 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 sympathized with him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him a piece of money, and each a ring of gold. ✦ ¹²The 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 female donkeys. ✦ ¹³He also had seven sons and three daughters. ✦ ¹⁴He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. ¹⁵In all the land no women were found as beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritances among their brothers. ✦ ¹⁶After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations. ✦ ¹⁷And Job died, an old man and full of days. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Job 1 ·4 Acts 7 ·4 Job 22 ·3 Gen 18 ·3 Gen 24 ·3 Job 8 ·3 Job 4 ·3 Num 23 ·3

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 42 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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