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| 42:1 |
Then Job answered the LORD:
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| 42:2 |
"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
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| 42:3 |
'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
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| 42:4 |
'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'
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| 42:5 |
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
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| 42:6 |
therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
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| 42:7 |
After 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 what is right, as my servant Job has.
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| 42:8 |
Now therefore take seven 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 I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done."
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| 42:9 |
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
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| 42:10 |
And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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| 42:11 |
Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.
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| 42:12 |
The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.
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| 42:13 |
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
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| 42:14 |
He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
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| 42:15 |
In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
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| 42:16 |
After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children's children, four generations.
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| 42:17 |
And Job died, old and full of days.
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