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Job’s Repentance and Restoration

Then Job answered the Lord and said:

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Job’s Confession and Repentance

Then Job answered the Lord and said:

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“I know that You can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.

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“I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

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You asked, ‘Who is this who 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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‘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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Listen, please, and let me speak;
You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’

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‘Hear, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.’

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“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.

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I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;

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Therefore I abhor[a] myself,
And repent in dust and ashes.”

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therefore I despise myself,
and repenta in dust and ashes.”

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And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

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The Lord Rebukes Job’s Friends

After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns 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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Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, 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 [b]him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

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Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. 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.”

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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them; for the Lord had [c]accepted Job.

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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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And the Lord [d]restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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The Lord Restores Job’s Fortunes

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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Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.

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Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evilb that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of moneyc and a ring of gold.

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Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

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And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

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He also had seven sons and three daughters.

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He had also seven sons and three daughters.

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And he called the name of the first [e]Jemimah, the name of the second [f]Keziah, and the name of the third [g]Keren-Happuch.

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And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.

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In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

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And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

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After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.

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And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations.

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So Job died, old and full of days.

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And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

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Job 42

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