{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/job/42","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T13:42:45.623Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":42,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":41,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered the Lord, and said : "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from thee. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Hear, and I will speak : I will ask thee, and do thou tell me. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite : My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before my, as my servant Job hath. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Take unto you therefore seven oxen, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust : and my servant Job shall pray for you : his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you : for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house : and bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought upon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of fold. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And he had seven sons, and three daughters. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And he called the names of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibil. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job : and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation, "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"and he died an old man, and full of days."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 42 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 42](https://primebible.com/drb/job/42)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/42 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}