Job 42

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¹Then Job replied to the Lord: ²“I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you. ✦ ³You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’ It is I—and I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me. ✦ ⁴You said, ‘Listen and I will speak! I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.’ ✦ ⁵I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes. ✦ ⁶I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.” ✦ ⁷After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has. ✦ ⁸So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has.” ✦ ⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer. ✦ ¹⁰When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before! ✦ ¹¹Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring. ✦ ¹²So the Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. ✦ ¹³He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters. ✦ ¹⁴He named his first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. ¹⁵In all the land no women were as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers. ✦ ¹⁶Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren. ✦ ¹⁷Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life. ✦

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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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