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42:1  Then Job answered the Lord:
42:2  “I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
42:3  ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me that I did not know.
42:4  ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.’
42:5  I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
42:6  therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
42:7  After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
42:8  Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.”
42:9  So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
42:10  And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
42:11  Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.
42:12  The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.
42:13  He also had seven sons and three daughters.
42:14  He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
42:15  In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
42:16  After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.
42:17  And Job died, old and full of days.