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1 Then Job answered the Lord:
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And Job said in answer to the Lord,
2 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
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I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.
3 "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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Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
4 "Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'
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Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
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Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.
6 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
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For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My wrath is kindled 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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And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
8 Now therefore take seven bulls 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 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 done."
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And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
9 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 Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.
10 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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And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
11 Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.
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And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
12 The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.
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And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.
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And he had seven sons and three daughters.
14 He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
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And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;
15 In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
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And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.
16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children's children, four generations.
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And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
17 And Job died, old and full of days.
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And Job came to his end, old and full of days.
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