1. Then Job answered the Lord,
2. “I know that you can do everythingand that your plans are unstoppable.
3. “⌊You said,⌋ ‘Who is this that belittles my advicewithout having any knowledge ⌊about it⌋?’Yes, I have stated things I didn’t understand,things too mysterious for me to know.
4. “⌊You said,⌋ ‘Listen now, and I will speak.I will ask you, and you will teach me.’
5. I had heard about you with my own ears,but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
6. That is why I take back what I said,and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry.”
7. After the Lord had said those things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz from Teman, “I’m very angry with you and your two friends because you didn’t speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done.
8. So take seven young bulls and seven rams. Go to my servant Job, and make a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you. Then I will accept his prayer not to treat you as godless fools. After all, you didn’t speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done.”