Job 42
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Job humbly submits to God
Verse 1
WEB Then Job answered Yahweh,
KJV Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
TSK No cross references.
Verse 2
WEB “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
KJV I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
TSK thou: ge 18:14, isa 43:13, jer 32:17, mt 19:26, mr 10:27, mr 14:36, lu 18:27; no: ps 44:21, ps 139:2, jer 17:10, eze 38:10, joh 2:24,25, joh 21:17, heb 4:12,13; can be withholden from thee: job 23:13, pr 19:21, ec 3:14, isa 14:27, isa 46:10, da 4:35, eph 1:11
Verse 3
WEB You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
KJV 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.
TSK Who: job 38:2; things: ps 40:5, ps 131:1, ps 139:6, pr 30:2-4
Verse 4
WEB You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’
KJV Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
TSK Hear: ge 18:27,30-32; I will: job 38:3, job 40:7
Verse 5
WEB I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
KJV I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
TSK heard: job 4:12, job 28:22, job 33:16, ro 10:17; mine: job 23:8,9, nu 12:6-8, isa 6:1, joh 1:18, joh 12:41,45, ac 7:55,56
Verse 6
WEB Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
KJV Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
TSK I: job 9:31, job 40:3,4, ezr 9:6, ps 51:17, isa 5:5, jer 31:19, eze 16:63, eze 20:43, eze 36:31, lu 15:18,19, 1co 15:8,9, 1ti 1:13-16, jas 4:7-10; repent: job 2:8, job 30:19, 1ki 21:27, es 4:1-3, isa 58:5, da 9:3, jon 3:6-10, mt 11:21, lu 10:13
Job makes prayer for his friends
Verse 7
WEB It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh 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.
KJV 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.
TSK Eliphaz: job 2:11, job 4:1, job 8:1, job 11:1; My: job 32:2,3,5; ye have: job 11:5,6, ps 51:4
Verse 8
WEB 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.”
KJV 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.
TSK seven bullocks: nu 23:1,14,29, 1ch 15:26, 2ch 29:21, eze 45:23, heb 10:4,10-14; go: mt 5:23,24; offer: job 1:5, ex 18:12; my servant Job shall: ge 20:17, isa 60:14, jer 14:11, jer 15:1, eze 14:14, heb 7:25, jas 5:14, 1jo 5:6, re 3:9; him: job 42:9, 1sa 25:35, mal 1:8,9, mt 3:17, eph 1:6; lest: ps 103:10, 2ti 4:14
Verse 9
WEB So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
KJV 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.
TSK did: job 34:31,32, isa 60:14, mt 7:24, joh 2:5, ac 9:6, ac 10:33, heb 11:8; Job: job 42:8, job 22:27, pr 3:11,12, ec 9:7
His made new well-being and wealth
Verse 10
WEB Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
KJV 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.
TSK turned: job 5:18-20, de 30:3, ps 14:7, ps 53:6, ps 126:1,4; when: ge 20:17, ex 17:4,5, nu 12:2,13, nu 14:1-4,10,13-20, nu 16:21,22,46-48, de 9:20, lu 16:27, ac 7:50,60; the Lord: job 8:6,7, job 22:24,25, de 8:18, 1sa 2:7, 2ch 25:9, pr 22:4, hag 2:8; gave Job twice as much as he had before: isa 40:2, isa 61:7
Verse 11
WEB Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
KJV 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.
TSK all his brethren: job 19:13,14, pr 16:7; they bemoaned: job 2:11, job 4:4, job 16:5, ge 37:35, isa 35:3,4, joh 11:19, ro 12:15, 1co 12:26, heb 12:12, heb 13:3; every man: job 6:22,23, ge 24:22,53, 1sa 10:27
Verse 12
WEB So Yahweh 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.
KJV 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.
TSK So: job 8:7, de 8:16, pr 10:22, ec 7:8, 1ti 6:17, jas 5:11; he had: job 1:3, ge 24:35, ge 26:12-14, ps 107:38, ps 144:13-15
Verse 14
WEB He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
KJV And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
TSK No cross references.
Verse 15
WEB In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
KJV 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.
TSK no: ps 144:12, ac 7:20; gave: nu 27:7, jos 15:18,19, jos 18:4
Verse 16
WEB After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
KJV After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
TSK an: ge 11:32, ge 25:7, ge 35:28, ge 47:28, ge 50:26, de 34:7, jos 24:29, ps 90:10; and saw: ge 50:23, ps 128:6, pr 17:6