2“I know that you can do all things,
And that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand,
Things too profound for me, which I didn’t know.
4You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you will answer me.’
5I had 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.”
7It was so, that after YAHWEH had spoken these words to Ayub, YAHWEH said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Ayub has. 8Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Ayub, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Ayub shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Ayub has.”
9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what YAHWEH commanded them, and YAHWEH accepted Ayub.
10YAHWEH restored Ayub’s prosperity, when he prayed for his friends. YAHWEH gave Ayub twice as much as he had before. 11Then all his brothers came to him there, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that YAHWEH had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
12So YAHWEH blessed the latter end of Ayub more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 13He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. 15In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Ayub. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16After this Ayub lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations. 17So Ayub died, being old and full of days.
- 42:1 Ayub, this Arabic name and the English name Job are derived from the Hebrew name Iyyob, which means “persecuted.” ↩︎
- 42:1 YAHWEH, God’s personal Name revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15: ‘God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.”’ ↩︎