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Job 42:1–6 – Job repents in dust and ashes

What happens: Job confesses God can do all things and that his plans cannot be thwarted. He admits he spoke of what he did not understand. Having heard and now seen, he despises his words and repents.

What it means: Encounter with God corrects our vision. Repentance is the right end of honest lament. God’s wisdom is better than our answers.

Job 42:7–9 – God rebukes the friends and accepts Job’s intercession

What happens: God tells Eliphaz that he and his friends have not spoken what is right about God as Job has. They must offer sacrifices, and Job will pray for them. God accepts Job’s prayer.

What it means: God cares about accurate talk about him. He restores through sacrifice and intercession. God values a righteous intercessor who prays for those who erred.

Job 42:10–17 – Restoration and future blessing

What happens: The Lord restores Job’s fortunes twofold, grants him children, and gives long life. His daughters receive inheritance and beautiful names. Job dies old and full of days.

What it means: God can turn sorrow to joy in his time. Restoration is grace, not payment. Final blessing rests in God’s favor and presence.

Application

  • Repent when God exposes your limits and wrong words.
  • Seek reconciliation. Pray for those who have wronged you and accept God’s way of restoring.
  • Receive restoration as grace and use it to honor God, not yourself.

Bible

1Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

7And 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.

8Therefore 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.

9So 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.

10And 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.

11Then 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.

12So 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.

13He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.

15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

17So Job died, being old and full of days.

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