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It changes direction, turning around by His guidance,That it may do whatever He commands itOn the face of the inhabited earth.

Whether for correction, or for His world,Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.

Do you know how God establishes them,And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine?

For whom I have set the desert plain as a homeAnd the salt land as his dwelling place?

He explores the mountains for his pastureAnd searches after every green thing.

Will you trust him because his power is greatAnd leave your labor to him?

When she raises herself up high,She laughs at the horse and his rider.

"Do you give the horse his might?Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Do you make him leap like the locust?His splendid snorting is terrible.

He paws in the valley and rejoices in his power;He goes out to meet the weapons.

"Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,Stretching his wings toward the south?

Is it at your command that the eagle goes on highAnd raises his nest high?

From there he spies out food;His eyes see it from afar.

His young ones also suck up blood;And where the slain are, there is he."

Or do you have an arm like God,And can you thunder with a voice like His?

Behold, his expectation is a lie;Will he be laid low even at the sight of it?

And Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and Yahweh increased all that Job had twofold.

Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the calamity that Yahweh had brought on him. And each one gave him one qesitah, and each a ring of gold.

And Yahweh blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 pairs of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

And after this, Job lived 140 years and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.