「我从前风闻有你，现在亲眼看见你。」（5节）

经文
约伯记四十二1-17

1约伯回答耶和华说：

2我知道，你万事都能作；你的旨意不能拦阻。

3谁用无知的言语使你的旨意隐藏呢？
我所说的是我不明白的；这些事太奇妙，是我不知道的。

4求你听我，我要说话；我问你，求你指示我。

5我从前风闻有你，现在亲眼看见你。

6因此我厌恶自己（或译：我的言语），在尘土和炉灰中懊悔。

7耶和华对约伯说话以后，就对提幔人以利法说：我的怒气向你和你两个朋友发作，因为你们议论我不如我的仆人约伯说的是。

8现在你们要取七只公牛，七只公羊，到我仆人约伯那里去，为自己献上燔祭，我的仆人约伯就为你们祈祷。我因悦纳他，就不按你们的愚妄办你们。你们议论我，不如我的仆人约伯说的是。

9于是提幔人以利法、书亚人比勒达、拿玛人琐法照着耶和华所吩咐的去行；耶和华就悦纳约伯。

10约伯为他的朋友祈祷。耶和华就使约伯从苦境（原文是掳掠）转回，并且耶和华赐给他的比他从前所有的加倍。

11约伯的弟兄、姊妹，和以先所认识的人都来见他，在他家里一同吃饭；又论到耶和华所降与他的一切灾祸，都为他悲伤安慰他。每人也送他一块银子和一个金环。

12这样，耶和华后来赐福给约伯比先前更多。他有一万四千羊，六千骆驼，一千对牛，一千母驴。

13他也有七个儿子，三个女儿。

14他给长女起名叫耶米玛，次女叫基洗亚，三女叫基连哈朴。

15在那全地的妇女中找不着像约伯的女儿那样美貌。他们的父亲使他们在弟兄中得产业。

16此后，约伯又活了一百四十年，得见他的儿孙，直到四代。

17这样，约伯年纪老迈，日子满足而死。

"My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you." (v5)

Bible reading:
Job 42:1-17

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."

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[a] 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.