1Then Job answered the Lord.

2“I know you can do anything. No one can prevent you doing what you want.

3You asked, ²⁹¹‘Who is this who questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?’ I was speaking about things I didn't understand—things too wonderful for me to know.

4You told me, ²⁹²‘Listen to me, I am going to speak. I am going to question you, and you must answer me.’

5Before, I had only heard about you, but now I've seen you for myself.

6That is why I'm sorry for what I said, ²⁹³and I repent in dust and ashes.”

7After the Lord had finished speaking to Job he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends because you have not told the truth about me, ²⁹⁴as my servant Job did.

8So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job, and you shall offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray on your behalf and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your foolishness, because you have not told the truth about me, as my servant Job did.”

9So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.

10The Lord restored Job's prosperity when he prayed for his friends, and gave him twice as much as he had before.

11Then all his brothers and sisters and friends he'd previously known came and ate with him at his home. They showed him sympathy and comforted him because of all the trouble ²⁹⁵the Lord had caused him. Each one of them gave him money and a gold ring.

12The Lord blessed the last part of Job's life more than the first part. Now he owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

13Job also had seven sons and three daughters.

14Job called the first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.

15Nowhere in all the land were there women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and Job gave them the same inheritance as their brothers.

16Job lived 140 years after this, seeing his children, and grandchildren, in fact four generations.

17Then Job died at an old age, having lived a very full life.