*Job 42:1-17
Having gained a deeper understanding of God, Job repents his rash words and is blessed with renewed prosperity and family.
- Job’s Response to the Lord:
- Job responds to the Lord’s revelation with humility and awe, acknowledging the greatness and majesty of God’s power and wisdom.
- He confesses his own lack of understanding and knowledge, admitting that he has spoken without fully comprehending the depth of God’s ways.
- Repentance and Contrition:
- Job repents of his earlier statements and actions, expressing remorse for his presumptuousness and arrogance in questioning God’s justice and righteousness.
- He acknowledges that he now sees God with new eyes and understands the error of his ways, humbling himself before the Lord in repentance.
- The Lord’s Approval:
- The Lord affirms Job’s repentance and contrition, declaring that Job has spoken rightly of Him and not falsely as his friends had done.
- He commands Job’s friends to make offerings of burnt offerings and instructs Job to pray for them, promising to accept Job’s intercession on their behalf.
- Restoration of Job’s Fortunes:
- The Lord restores Job’s fortunes and blesses him with prosperity once again, doubling the wealth and possessions that Job had lost during his trials.
- Job receives back his livestock, with double the number of sheep, camels, oxen, and donkeys, along with seven sons and three daughters.
- The Daughters of Job:
- Job’s daughters are named Jemimah, Keziah, and Keren-Happuch, and they are described as being the most beautiful women in all the land.
- Job gives his daughters an inheritance along with their brothers, breaking with tradition and treating them equally in terms of inheritance rights.
- Job’s Longevity:
- Job lives to be one hundred and forty years old, seeing four generations of his descendants, and he dies a full and satisfied man, having lived a life of integrity and faithfulness.
Job 42:1-17 teaches us that trusting God, even in hard times, leads to restoration and blessing. After Job humbled himself and acknowledged God’s wisdom, God restored what he had lost and blessed him even more. This reminds us that no matter what we go through, God sees our pain and has a greater plan. When we trust Him, stay faithful, and keep a humble heart, He can bring healing, renewal, and unexpected blessings into our lives.
Job 42:1-17 (WEB)
42:1 Then Job answered the LORD:2 “I know that you can do all things,and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.3 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.4 You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak;I will question you, and you will answer me.’5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,but now my eye sees you.6 Therefore I abhor myself,and repent in dust and ashes.”7 It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD 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. 8 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.”9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job.10 The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 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 the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.12 So the LORD 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. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. 15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.