Read Job 42:1-6 and 10-17

Tuesday

Read Job 42:1-6 and 10-17

42  Then Job answered the Lord.

Job

²I know, Lord, that you are all-powerful;

that you can do everything you want.

³You ask how I dare question your wisdom

when I am so very ignorant.

I talked about things I did not understand,

about marvels too great for me to know.

⁴You told me to listen while you spoke

and to try to answer your questions.

⁵In the past I knew only what others had told me,

but now I have seen you with my own eyes. ⁶So I am ashamed of all I have said

and repent in dust and ashes.

10 Then, after Job had prayed for his three friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had had before. ¹¹All Job’s brothers and sisters and former friends came to visit him and feasted with him in his house. They expressed their sympathy and comforted him for all the troubles the Lord had brought on him. Each of them gave him some money and a gold ring.

12 The Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life even more than he had blessed the first. Job owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 2,000 head of cattle, and 1,000 donkeys. ¹³He was the father of seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴He called the eldest daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the youngest Keren Happuch.^{e 15}There were no other women in the whole world as beautiful as Job’s daughters. Their father gave them a share of the inheritance along with their brothers.

16 Job lived 140 years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. ¹⁷And then he died at a very great age.

Think

I'm glad Job has a happy ending.  The Job book is a parable about going through trials - and learning about the greatness and glory of God even through those difficulties.

Verse 5 is beautiful:  "In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes."

Pray

Lord help me not to know only what others have told me, but let me see you for myself.