1 Toe het Job die HERE geantwoord en gesê:

2 Ek weet dat U alles kan doen en geen plan vir U onuitvoerbaar is nie.

3 Wie verberg die raadsbesluit daar sonder kennis? So het ek dan gespreek sonder om te verstaan, dinge te wonderbaar vir my, wat ek nie begryp nie.

4 Hoor tog, en ,k sal spreek; ek sal U ondervra en onderrig U my!

5 Volgens hoorsê het ek van U gehoor; maar nou het my oog U gesien.

6 Daarom herroep ek en het berou in stof en as.

7 En nadat die HERE Job toegespreek het met hierdie woorde, sê die HERE aan lifas, die Temaniet: My toorn het ontvlam teen jou en jou twee vriende; want julle het nie reg van My gespreek soos my kneg Job nie.

8 Neem dan nou vir julle sewe bulle en sewe ramme, en gaan na my kneg Job en bring 'n brandoffer vir julle, en laat my kneg Job vir julle bid; want hom alleen sal Ek in guns aanneem, sodat Ek aan julle nie die dwaasheid laat vergelde nie; want julle het nie reg van My gespreek soos my kneg Job nie.

9 Toe het lifas, die Temaniet, en Bildad, die Suhiet, en Sofar, die Na„matiet, heengegaan en gedoen soos die HERE aan hulle gesê het; en die HERE het Job in guns aangeneem.

10 En die HERE het die lot van Job verander toe hy vir sy vriende gebid het; en die HERE het Job se besittings vermeerder tot dubbel soveel as voorheen.

11 Ook het al sy broers en al sy susters en al sy bekendes van vroeër na hom gekom en met hom saam brood geëet in sy huis; en hulle het met hom medelyde gehad en hom vertroos oor al die onheil wat die HERE oor hom gebring het. En hulle het hom elkeen 'n geldstuk gegee en elkeen 'n goue ring.

12 En die HERE het die einde van Job meer geseënas sy begin; en hy het veertien duisend stuks kleinvee en ses duisend kamele en duisend paar beeste en duisend eselinne gehad.

13 Daarby het hy sewe seuns en drie dogters gehad.

14 En hy het die eerste genoem Jem¡ma en die tweede Kes¡a en die derde Kerenhappug.

15 En in die hele land is geen vroue gevind so mooi soos die dogters van Job nie; en hulle vader het hulle 'n erfdeel gegee onder hulle broers.

16 En Job het daarna honderd en veertig jaar lank gelewe; en hy het sy kinders en kindskinders gesien, vier geslagte.

17 En Job het gesterwe, oud en afgeleef.

1 And Job said in answer to the Lord,

2 I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.

3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

5 Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.

6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

9 And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.

10 And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

11 And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

12 And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

14 And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;

15 And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

16 And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

17 And Job came to his end, old and full of days.