42:2I know that thou canst do every thing, and
that no thought can be withholden from thee.
42:3
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered
that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
42:4
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare
thou unto me.
42:5I have heard of thee by
the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
(42:5)
"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee." Can God be seen?
42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
42:7
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the
LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and
against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is
right, as my servant Job hath.
42:8
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you after
your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like
my servant Job.
42:9
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite
went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted
Job.
42:10
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends:
also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
42:11
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all
they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in
his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that
the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and
every one an earring of gold.
42:12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he
had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of
oxen, and a thousand she asses.
(42:13-15) After God and Satan finished tormenting Job, God gave Job even more stuff than
he had before, including children. God gave Job another set of 10 kids, with even prettier daughters! (This is where
Job's Daughters International comes from.)
(42:12) "So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he
had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of
oxen, and a thousand she asses."
(42:13-15) "He had also seven sons and three daughters ... And in all the land were no women found so
fair as the daughters of Job."