Job 36-42

So I finally finished the book of Job today....It took me forever!

These last few chapters in Job were very good.  I especially like Chapter 36.  Verse 14 is very good.


 ¹⁴ “Listen to this, Job; 
   stop and consider God’s wonders. 



I like this verse a lot.  You could even take out Job's name and replace it with your own to make it more personal.

Then the Lords says this to Job:


The LORD Speaks
 ¹ Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:
 ² “Who is this that obscures my plans
   with words without knowledge? ³ Brace yourself like a man;
   I will question you,
   and you shall answer me.


After God asks Job a bunch of questions Job finally responds with this:



³ Then Job answered the LORD:
 ⁴ “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you?
   I put my hand over my mouth. ⁵ I spoke once, but I have no answer—
   twice, but I will say no more.”


And then he says:




 ¹ Then Job replied to the LORD:

 ² “I know that you can do all things;
   no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ³ You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
   Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
   things too wonderful for me to know.

 ⁴ “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
   I will question you,
   and you shall answer me.’ ⁵ My ears had heard of you
   but now my eyes have seen you. ⁶ Therefore I despise myself
   and repent in dust and ashes.”

Epilogue

 ⁷ After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. ⁸ So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” ⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer. ¹⁰ After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. ¹¹ All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver^[r] and a gold ring.
 ¹² The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. ¹³ And he also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵ Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
 ¹⁶ After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And so Job died, an old man and full of years.





I'm so glad that Job had a happy ending.  I don't think that I could've bared it if he didn't have a happy life after all he went through.  He was blessed even more at the end of his life than at the beginning.




- Mallory