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Job

Chapter 42

Job Submits Himself to the LORD and more

Job finally answers without protest, confessing that the LORD's purposes stand beyond obstruction and that his own words outran his knowledge. The book then turns outward as the LORD rebukes Job's friends for speaking wrongly about him, requires them to seek Job's intercession, and at last restores Job with renewed family, abundance, and long life.

This closing chapter resolves the drama on two fronts at once: Job is brought from argument to repentance before the living God, and the community around him is reordered by divine judgment and mercy. Restoration is real, but it comes after revelation, humility, sacrifice, and prayer, so the ending seals the book as a testimony to God's freedom, justice, and compassion rather than to a simple formula of reward.

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vv. 1-6

Job Submits Himself to the LORD

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T1hen Job replied to the LORD: 2“I know that You can do all things 3You asked, ‘Who is this 4You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. 5My ears had heard of You, 6Therefore I despise myself,

vv. 7-9

The LORD Rebukes Job’s Friends

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A7fter 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 Job’s prayer.

vv. 10-17

The LORD Blesses Job

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A10fter 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 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. 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 Job’s 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.

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  1. 01vv. 1-6Job Submits Himself to the LORDJob answers the LORD by confessing God's unlimited power and admitting that he spoke about wonders too great for him. What he once knew by report he now knows by encounter, and that nearness drives him not to self-justification but to repentance in dust and ashes.
  2. 02vv. 7-9The LORD Rebukes Job’s FriendsAfter addressing Job, the LORD turns to Eliphaz and his companions with anger, declaring that they have not spoken rightly about him as Job has. He commands them to bring sacrifices and to seek Job's prayer, so that the man they had judged becomes the mediator through whom they receive acceptance.
  3. 03vv. 10-17The LORD Blesses JobOnce Job has prayed for his friends, the LORD restores and multiplies what was lost, surrounding him again with kin, honor, and wealth. The chapter closes with renewed children, named daughters of striking beauty and inheritance, a long life spanning generations, and Job's peaceful death after fullness has returned.
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