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"Teach us what we should say to Him, For we can prepare nothing because of the darkness.

As for the Almighty, we cannot find Him; He is excellent in power, In judgment and abundant justice; He does not oppress.

When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors;

Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, For the day of battle and war?

"Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water, Or a path for the thunderbolt,

"Can you hunt the prey for the lion, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

Who provides food for the raven, When its young ones cry to God, And wander about for lack of food?

For she leaves her eggs on the ground, And warms them in the dust;

Surely the mountains yield food for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.

Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens?

You asked, "Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

And so it was, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, 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 him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has."

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD commanded them; for the LORD had accepted Job.

And the Lord restored Job's losses [fn] when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.

Now the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.