Job 42
Berean Standard Bible · Compare translations · 2100 BC – 1800 BC · The patriarchs · Tap a verse to copy, share or highlight ·
17 verses · 371 words · ~2 min read · ~2 min listen
Job Submits Himself to the LORD
1Then Job replied to the Lord:
The LORD Rebukes Jobʼs Friends
7After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has. 8So 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.”
9So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them; and the Lord accepted Jobʼs prayer.
The LORD Blesses Job
10After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions. 11All 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.
12So the Lord blessed Jobʼs latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch. 15No women as beautiful as Jobʼs daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17And so Job died, old and full of years.
Footnotes (3)
Study notes on this chapter · 1
God answers Job from the whirlwind
After chapters of debate about why the righteous suffer, God answers Job not with an explanation but with a tour of creation's wildness — sea, stars, Leviathan — pressing the question of who governs it. Job repents of demanding an account; God restores him without endorsing his friends' theory that suffering always means sin.
When: Set in patriarchal times; the book's date is unknown.
Ways people read this (2)
- Many readers see the point as trust in God's wisdom rather than answers to why.
- Others stress the ending's restoration as a sign that lament is heard, not punished.
Editorial note by BibleWay. Interpretations vary; dates are approximate scholarly estimates.