Job 42

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¹Then Job answered the Lord and said: ²“I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. ✦ ³You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ✦ ⁴Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’ ✦ ⁵“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You. ✦ ⁶Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.” ✦ ⁷And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has. ✦ ⁸Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, 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 him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.” ✦ ⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them; for the Lord had accepted Job. ✦ ¹⁰And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. ✦ ¹¹Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold. ✦ ¹²Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. ✦ ¹³He also had seven sons and three daughters. ✦ ¹⁴And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. ✦ ¹⁶After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. ✦ ¹⁷So Job died, old 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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