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Job 42
V. EPILOGUE
Job’s final answer
1 This was the answer Job gave to Yahweh:
2 I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform.
3 I am the man who obscured your designs with my empty-headed words. I have been holding forth on matters I cannot understand, on marvels beyond me and my knowledge.
4 (Listen, I have more to say, now it is my turn to ask questions and yours to inform me.)
5 I knew you then only by hearsay; but now, having seen you with my own eyes,
6 I retract all I have said, and in dust and ashes I repent.
Yahweh rebukes the three Sages
7 When Yahweh had said all this to Job, he turned to Eliphaz of Teman. ‘I burn with anger against you and your two friends’ he said ‘for not speaking truthfully about me as my servant Job has done.
8 So now find Seven bullocks and seven rams, and take them back with you to my servant Job and offer a holocaust for yourselves, while Job, my servant, offers prayers for you. I will listen to him with favour and excuse your folly in not speaking of me properly as your servant Job has done’
9 Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah and Zophar of Naamath went away to do as Yahweh had ordered, and Yahweh listened to Job with favour.
Yahweh restores Job’s fortunes
10 Yahweh restored Job’s fortunes, because he had prayed for his friends. More than that, Yahweh gave him double what he had before.
11 And all his brothers and all his sisters and all his friends of former times came to see him and sat down at table with him. They showed him every sympathy, and comforted him for all the evils Yahweh had inflicted on him. Each of them gave him a silver coin, and each a gold ring.
12 Yahweh blessed Job’s new fortune even more than his first one. He came to own fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she-donkeys.
13 He had seven sons and three daughters;
14 his first daughter he called ‘Turtledove’, the second ‘Cassia’ and the third ‘Mascara’.
15 Throughout the land there were no women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance rights like their brothers.
16 After his trials, Job lived on until he was a hundred and forty years old, and saw his children and his children’s children up to the fourth generation.
17 Then Job died, an old man and full of days.