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Chapter 42 |
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1 | Then Job answered the LORD, and
said, |
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I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can
be withholden from thee. |
| 3 | Who is he that hideth counsel without
knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful
for me, which I knew not. |
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4 | Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak:
I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. |
| 5 | I have heard
of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. |
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Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. |
| 7 | And it was so,
that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz
the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends:
for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job
hath. |
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Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you
after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right,
like my servant Job. |
| 9 | So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the
Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded
them: the LORD also accepted Job. |
| 10 | And the LORD turned the
captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice
as much as he had before. |
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11 | Then came there unto him all his
brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance
before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and
comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man
also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. |
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So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had
fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,
and a thousand she asses. |
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13 | He had also seven sons and three
daughters. |
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| And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name
of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. |
| 15 | And
in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their
father gave them inheritance among their brethren. |
| 16 | After this
lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons,
even four generations. |
| 17 | So Job died, being old and full of days. |
