Job Submits Himself to the LORD 1 DRA Then Job answered the Lord, and said: BSB BSB: Then Job replied to the LORD:
2 DRA I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from thee. BSB BSB: “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
3 DRA Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge. 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 DRA Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me. BSB BSB: You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’
5 DRA With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee. BSB BSB: My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.
6 DRA Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes. BSB BSB: Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
The LORD Rebukes Job’s Friends 8 DRA Take unto you therefore seven oxen, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust: and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath. 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 DRA So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face 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 DRA The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. BSB BSB: After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
11 DRA And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought upon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of fold. 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 DRA And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 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 DRA And he had seven sons, and three daughters. BSB BSB: And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
14 DRA And he called the names of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibil. BSB BSB: He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.
15 DRA And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them 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 DRA And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, unto the fourth generation, and he died an old man, and full of days. BSB BSB: After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
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