The Lord Challenges Job – Job 40:6–41:34
- God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind, and confronts him with what he wrongly said in his speeches when he dared to annul God's justice. (Because Job believed that suffering is God's punishment for sin, he had to condemn God in order to maintain his innocence.)
- God suggests that since Job felt justified in condemning how He runs the universe, perhaps Job should be "king for a day." He also tells him to consider Behemoth (perhaps a hippopotamus?) and the strength of this animal God has created, as well as Leviathan (perhaps a crocodile?). He implies that King Leviathan is over all those who have pride, including Job, and that Job could never subdue him.
Job's Confession and Repentance – Job 42
- Job responds that he knows God can do all things and that none of His purposes can be thwarted. He claims that he has said things that he didn't understand, and asks God to speak and he will hear Him. Job despises himself.
The Lord Rebukes Job's Friends
- God now tells Eliphaz and his two friends that He burns with anger against them because they have not spoken of Him what is right, as Job has. He instructs them to take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and to offer burnt offerings for themselves, and tells them that Job will then pray for them and He will accept Job's prayer and not punish them.
- Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar do as God says, and God accepts Job's prayer on their behalf.
The Lord Restores Job's Fortunes
- God restores Job's fortunes, giving him twice what he had before. God doubles his livestock, and Job has seven sons and three daughters. Job lives 140 years and dies "an old man, full of days."
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