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1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be
withholden from thee.
3 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.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and
declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye
seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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 right, as my servant Job hath.
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 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the
second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
15 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.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his
sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2. John Gill's Exposition of the
Bible
- http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/job/gill/job42.htm
3. Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown
- http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/job/jfb/job42.htm
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Overview of Job 42 |
This chapter contains Job's answer to the last speech of the
Lord's, in which he acknowledges his omnipotence, and his
certain performance of his purposes and pleasure; owns his
own folly and ignorance, and confesses his sins; for which
he abhorred himself, and of which he repented, ver. 1;
it also gives an account of the Lord's decision of the
controversy between Job and his friends, blaming them and
commending him above them; and ordered them to take
sacrifices and go to Job and offer them, who should pray for
them and be accepted, which was done, ver. 7;
and it closes with a relation of the great prosperity Job
was restored unto, in which he lived and died, ver. 10.2
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200 year plus lifespan |
After this lived Job an
hundred and forty years,.... Not after he had arrived
to the height of his prosperity; not after the birth
of his children, and they were grown up, and had
their portions given them, which must take in a
considerable number of years; but after his
afflictions were over, and his prosperity began: and
if his years were doubled, as some think, though that
is not certain, then he must be seventy years of age
when he was so sorely afflicted and must live to the
age of two hundred and ten; which is the common
notion of the Jewish writers: however, he must be
fifty or sixty years of age at that time, since his
former children were grown up and were for
themselves; and it is said, his afflictions
continued seven years.2 The
Septuagint makes Job live a hundred seventy years
after his calamity, and two hundred forty in all.
This would make him seventy at the time of his
calamity, which added to a hundred forty in Hebrew
text makes up two hundred ten; a little more than the
age (two hundred five) of Terah, father of Abraham,
perhaps his contemporary. Man's length of life
gradually shortened, till it reached threescore and
ten in Moses' time (Ps 90:10).3
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