Conclusion of Job

Then Job replied to the Lord :

“I know that you can do all things;

no plan of yours can be thwarted.


You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’

Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me to know.


“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;

I will question you,

and you shall answer me.’

My ears had heard of you

but now my eyes have seen you.

Therefore I despise myself

and repent in dust and ashes.”

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 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.

After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so he died, old and full of years. (Job 42:1-6, 10, 12-17 NIV84)

What an interesting ending to the story of Job. God responds that he is sovereign. Then Job repents. And God shows himself to be good and loving. He is blessed with earthly things and sees his new family and children grow up to the fourth generation. God blesses him not because he is righteous but because God chooses to.

Job changes his heart because he seen the Lord. No longer is he far off. The Lord is near. This speaks to me of Jesus who was to come after this book of Job and how we now live in close relationship with God as we rile in faith in Jesus and God the Holy Spirit lives in us! And so we are blessed, not always by prosperity but by God being with us now and forever. Amen