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For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

Teach us what we shall say to him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness.

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

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

When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

And broke up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,

Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where [is] its place,

Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for want of food.

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that which I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words to 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].

Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer 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.

And 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.

So 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.

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the heathen [for] thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.