- 1Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
- 2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
- 3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
- 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
- 5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
- 6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
- 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.
- 8Therefore 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.
- 9So 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.
- 10And 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.
- 11Then 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.
- 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.
- 13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
- 14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
- 15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
- 16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
- 17So Job died, being old and full of days.
KING JAMES VERSION
JOB 42
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CHAPTER VISUAL
Job 42 — Job humbles himself, intercedes for his friends, and receives restored fellowship, family, provision, and fullness of days.
About this illustration
Repentance, prayer, reunion, and later restoration form a chronological panorama. The new household does not erase the children who died, sacrifices remain non-graphic, and God is not depicted in bodily form.
Scripture basis: Job 42:1–17King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom
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Archaeological Evidence
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
Late first century BC or early first century AD
The Qumran Targum of Job (11Q10)
A substantial Aramaic translation of Job 17-42 shows sophisticated Jewish interpretation of the difficult Hebrew book before the later rabbinic targums.
Job 38:1–41 · Job 42:1–17
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
First century AD
P.Oxy. L 3522: Job 42 and the Divine Name
A first-century papyrus-roll fragment from Oxyrhynchus preserves Job 42:11-12 in Greek while writing the divine name twice in archaizing Hebrew letters inside the Greek line.
Job 42:11–12
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