42:2 I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no {a} thought can be withholden from thee. (a) No thought so secret but you see it, nor anything that you think but that you can bring it to pass. 42:3 Who [is] he that hideth counsel without {b} knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, {c} which I knew not. (b) Is there any but I? for this God laid to his charge, Job 38:2. (c) I confess in this my ignorance, and that I spoke of what I did not know. 42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, {d} and declare thou unto me. (d) He shows that he will be God's scholar to learn of him. 42:5 I have {e} heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. (e) I knew you only before by hearsay, but now you have caused me to feel what you are to me, that I may resign myself over to you. 42:7 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] {f} right, as my servant {g} Job [hath]. (f) You took in hand an evil cause, in that you condemned him by his outward afflictions, and not comforted him with my mercies. (g) Who had a good cause, but handled it evil. 42:8 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 {h} 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. (h) When you have reconciled yourselves to him for the faults that you have committed against him, he will pray for you, and I will hear him. 42:10 And the LORD turned the {i} captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. (i) He delivered him out of the affliction he was in. 42:11 Then came there unto him all his {k} 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. (k) That is, all his kindred, read Job 19:13. 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had {l} fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. (l) God made him twice as rich in cattle as he was before, and gave him as many children as he had taken from him. 42:14 And he called the name of the first, {m} Jemima; and the name of the second, {n} Kezia; and the name of the third, {o} Kerenhappuch. (m) That is, of long life, or beautiful as the day. (n) As pleasant as cassia or sweet spice. (o) That is, the horn of beauty. | |