Job 42 · איוב

Then Iyyov answered the Lord, and said,

I know that Thou canst do everything, and that no purpose of Thine can be thwarted.

Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak: I will demand of Thee, and declare Thou unto me.

I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees Thee.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words to Iyyov, the Lord said to Elifaz the Temanite; My anger burns against thee, and against thy two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, like my servant Iyyov.

Therefore take for yourselves now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Iyyov, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Iyyov shall pray for you: for to him I will show favour in doing you no disgrace, although you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Iyyov.

So Elifaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuĥite and Żofar the Na῾amatite went, and did as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Iyyov.

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Iyyov, when he prayed for his friends: and the Lord gave Iyyov twice as much as he had before.

Then all his brothers came to him, and all his sisters, and all they who 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 qesita, and everyone an earring of gold.

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Iyyov 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.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

And he called the name of the first, Yemima; and the name of the second, Qeżi῾a; and the name of the third, Qeren-happukh.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Iyyov: and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

After this Iyyov lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

So Iyyov died, being old and full of days.