Job Chapter 42

Job submits to God

42:1 Then Job answered YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, and said,
42:2 I know that You can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.
42:3 Who is he that hides advice without knowledge? so have I made known that I don’t understood [things] too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
42:4 Listen, I beg You, and I will speak: I will ask of You, and You make me understand.
42:5 I have heard of You by [the] hearing of the ear: but now my eyes see You.
42:6 Because of that I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Job’s friends accept him

42:7 And it so happened, that after YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
had spoken these words to Job, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger is kindled against you, and against Your two friends: for ya’ll haven’t spoken of Me [what is right], as My servant Job has.
42:8 So take with you now seven steers and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up
a burnt offering for yourselves ; and my servant Job will pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your foolishness, in that ya’ll have not spoken [what is] right about Me, like my servant Job [has].
42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did like YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
spoken to them: YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
also accepted Job.
42:10 And when he prayed for his friends YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
turned the captivity of Job.  Also YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
gave Job twice as much as he had before.
42:11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and they had compassion on him, and comforted him over all the evil that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and each one an earring of gold.
42:12 So YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
blessed the latter days of Job more than the beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
42:15 And in all the land weren’t any women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Job’s Age and death


42:16 After this lived Job one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, [even] four generations.
42:17 So Job died, [being] old and full of days.

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