Job 42
- 1Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
- 2I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be kept back from you.
- 3Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken that I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
- 4Hear, I urge you, and I will speak. I will demand of you, and you declare to me.
- 5I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you.
- 6Therefore I hate myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
- 7After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
- 8Therefore take to you now seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you. For him I will accept, or else I will deal with you after your foolishness, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
- 9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.
- 10And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- 11Then all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought on him. Every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
- 12So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. For he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
- 13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
- 14And he called the name of the first Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Kerenhappuch.
- 15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
- 16After this lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
- 17So Job died, being old and full of days.
What changed from the KJV
GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of Job 42 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.
KJVI know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
GIGAKJVI know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be kept back from you.
KJVWho is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
GIGAKJVWho is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken that I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
KJVHear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
GIGAKJVHear, I urge you, and I will speak. I will demand of you, and you declare to me.
KJVI have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
GIGAKJVI have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you.
KJVWherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
GIGAKJVTherefore I hate myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
KJVAnd it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
GIGAKJVAfter the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
KJVTherefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
GIGAKJVTherefore take to you now seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you. For him I will accept, or else I will deal with you after your foolishness, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
KJVThen came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
GIGAKJVThen all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought on him. Every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
KJVSo the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
GIGAKJVSo the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. For he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
KJVAnd he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
GIGAKJVAnd he called the name of the first Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Kerenhappuch.
KJVAnd in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
GIGAKJVAnd in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
KJVAfter this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
GIGAKJVAfter this lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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