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"I know that 1You can do allthings, And that nopurpose of Yours can be thwarted.
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'Who is this that 2hidescounselwithoutknowledge?' "Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things3toowonderful for me, which I did not know."
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'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will 4ask You, and You instruct me.'
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"I have 5heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my 6eyesees You;
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Therefore* I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes."
God Displeased with Job's Friends
7 It came about after the LORD had spokenthesewords to Job, that the LORDsaid to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your twofriends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right7as My servantJob has.
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"Now therefore, take for yourselves 8sevenbulls and sevenrams, and go to My servantJob, and offer up a 9burntoffering for yourselves, and My servantJob will 10pray for you. 11For I will accept* him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servantJob has."
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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathitewent and did as the LORDtold them; and the LORDaccepted*Job.
God Restores Job's Fortunes
10 The LORD12restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the LORDincreasedall that Job had twofold.
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Then all his 13brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him beforecame to him, and they atebread with him in his house; and they 14consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the LORD had brought on him. And eachonegave him onepiece of money, and each a ring of gold.
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15The LORDblessed the latter days of Jobmorethan his beginning; 16and he had14,000**sheep and 6,000*camels and 1,000yoke of oxen and 1,000femaledonkeys.