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1 Then Job answered
the LORD:
2 “I
know that you
can do all
things,
and that no
purpose of yours
can be restrained.
3 You asked, ‘Who
is this who
hides counsel
without knowledge?’
therefore I have
uttered that which
I didn’t understand,
things too
wonderful for me,
which I didn’t
know.
4 You
said, ‘Listen, now,
and I will
speak;
I will question
you, and you
will answer me.’
5 I
had heard of
you by the
hearing of the
ear,
but now my
eye sees you.
6 Therefore
I abhor myself,
and repent in
dust and ashes.”
7 It
was so, that
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 the thing
that is right,
as my servant
Job has.
8 Now
therefore, take to
yourselves 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
him, that I
not deal with
you according to
your folly. For
you have not
spoken of me
the thing that
is right, as
my servant Job
has.”
9 So Eliphaz
the Temanite and
Bildad the Shuhite
and Zophar the
Naamathite went
and did what
the LORD commanded
them, and the
LORD accepted Job.
10 The
LORD restored Job’s prosperity
when he prayed
for his friends.
The LORD gave Job
twice as much
as he had before.
11 Then
all his brothers,
all his sisters,
and all those
who had been
of his
acquaintance before,
came to him
and ate bread with
him in his
house. They
comforted him, and
consoled him
concerning all the
evil that the
LORD had brought
on him. Everyone
also gave him
a piece of
money,
and everyone a
ring of gold.
12 So
the LORD blessed
the latter end of Job
more than his
beginning. He had
fourteen thousand sheep,
six thousand camels,
one thousand yoke
of oxen, and
a thousand female donkeys.
13 He
had also seven
sons and three
daughters.
14 He
called the name
of the first,
Jemimah; and the
name of the
second, Keziah;
and the name
of the third, Keren
Happuch.
15 In
all the land
were no women
found so beautiful
as the daughters
of Job.
Their father gave
them an
inheritance among
their brothers.
16 After
this Job lived one
hundred forty years,
and saw his
sons, and his
sons’ sons, to four
generations.
17 So Job
died, being old
and full of
days.