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I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
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Who is he that hidethcounsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
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Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eyeseeth thee.
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Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORDsaid to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy twofriends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servantJob hath.
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Therefore take unto you now sevenbullocks and sevenrams, and go to my servantJob, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servantJob shall pray for you: for him[a] 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 servantJob.
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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathitewent, and did according as the LORDcommanded them: the LORD also acceptedJob*.[b]
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And the LORDturned the captivity* of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORDgave[c]Job twice as much as he had before.
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Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintancebefore, and did eatbread 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 LORDblessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen*thousandsheep, and sixthousandcamels, and a thousandyoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.