Job Submits Himself to the LORD 1 Brenton Then Job answered and said to the Lord, BSB BSB: Then Job replied to the LORD:
2 Brenton I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee. BSB BSB: “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
3 Brenton For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not? BSB BSB: You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
4 Brenton But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me. BSB BSB: You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’
5 Brenton I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee. BSB BSB: My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.
6 Brenton Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes. BSB BSB: Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
The LORD Rebukes Job’s Friends 8 Brenton Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but for his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job. BSB BSB: So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
9 Brenton So Eliphaz the Thæmanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minæan, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job. BSB BSB: So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.
The LORD Blesses Job 10 Brenton And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them their sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before. BSB BSB: After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
11 Brenton And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and so did all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachms' weight of gold, even of unstamped gold . BSB BSB: All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12 Brenton And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures. BSB BSB: So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13 Brenton And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. BSB BSB: And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
14 Brenton And he called the first, Day, and the second, Casia, and the third, Amalthæa's horn. BSB BSB: He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.
15 Brenton And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer women than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren. BSB BSB: No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
16 Brenton And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation. BSB BSB: After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17 Brenton And Job died, an old man and full of days: BSB BSB: And so Job died, old and full of years.
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