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Job’s Repentance and Restoration

Then Job answered the Lord and said:

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Job

Then Job replied to the Lord:

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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;
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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You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to 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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“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer 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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My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen 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 repent 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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After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, 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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So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, 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, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord 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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After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him 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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All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silvera and a gold ring.

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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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The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

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He also had seven sons and three daughters.

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And he also had 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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The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and 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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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.

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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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After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

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So Job died, old and full of days.

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And so Job died, an old man and full of years.

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Job 42

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