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Job 42

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Bible Compare Job 42
Verse 1
WEB

Then Job answered Yahweh:

KJV

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

Verse 2
WEB

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

KJV

I know that thou canst do every thing , and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

Verse 3
WEB

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

KJV

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

Verse 4
WEB

You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

KJV

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Verse 5
WEB

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

KJV

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Verse 6
WEB

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

KJV

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

Verse 7
WEB

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

KJV

And it was so , that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath .

Verse 8
WEB

Now therefore, take to yourselves 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 him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

KJV

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

Verse 9
WEB

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

KJV

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

Verse 10
WEB

Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

KJV

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Verse 11
WEB

Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

KJV

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that 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 piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

Verse 12
WEB

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

KJV

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job 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.

Verse 13
WEB

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

KJV

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

Verse 14
WEB

He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

KJV

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.

Verse 15
WEB

In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

KJV

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

Verse 16
WEB

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

KJV

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Verse 17
WEB

So Job died, being old and full of days.

KJV

So Job died, being old and full of days.