1. Then Job answered the Lord and said:
2. I know that you can do all things,and that no purpose of yours can be hindered.
3. “Who is this who obscures counsel with ignorance?”I have spoken but did not understand;things too marvelous for me, which I did not know.
4. “Listen, and I will speak;I will question you, and you tell me the answers.”
5. By hearsay I had heard of you,but now my eye has seen you.
6. Therefore I disown what I have said,and repent in dust and ashes.
7. And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger blazes against you and your two friends! You have not spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job.
8. So now take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves, and let my servant Job pray for you. To him I will show favor, and not punish your folly, for you have not spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job.”
9. Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had commanded them. The Lord showed favor to Job.