English Standard Version

Job 42:3-8 English Standard Version (ESV)

3. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

4. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’

5. I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,but now my eye sees you;

6. therefore I despise myself,and repent in dust and ashes.”

7. After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

8. Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”