Epilogue

⁷After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am incensed at you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me as did My servant Job. ⁸Now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. And let Job, My servant, pray for you; for to him I will show favor and not treat you vilely, since you have not spoken the truth about Me as did My servant Job.” ⁹Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord showed favor to Job. ¹⁰The Lord restored Job’s fortunes when he prayed on behalf of his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice what he had before.

¹¹All his brothers and sisters and all his former friends came to him and had a meal with him in his house. They consoled and comforted him for all the misfortune that the Lord had brought upon him. Each gave him one kesitah^aand each one gold ring. ¹²Thus the Lord blessed the latter years of Job’s life more than the former. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand she-asses. ¹³He also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴The first he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. ¹⁵Nowhere in the land were women as beautiful as Job’s daughters to be found. Their father gave them estates together with their brothers. ¹⁶Afterward, Job lived one hundred and forty years to see four generations of sons and grandsons. ¹⁷So Job died old and contented.