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Job 42
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1Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
1Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.
2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?
3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.
4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now my eye has seen you.
5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.
6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you⌃ have not said anything true before me , as my servant Job [has].
7And 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.
8Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you , for you⌃ have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.
8Therefore 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.
9So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, wentand did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.
9So 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.
10And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.
10And 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.
11And all his brethrenand his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].
11Then 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.
12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job , [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she -asses of the pastures.
12So 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.
13And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.
14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.
15And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.
15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16And Job lived after [his] affliction one hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sonsand his sons' sons, the fourth generation.
16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
17And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. This man is described in the Syriac book [as] living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And [his] friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad sovereign the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Minaeans.
17So Job died, being old and full of days.