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His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether millstone.

His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

Upon earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.

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."

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.

Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and 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 ring of gold.

And 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 she-asses.

And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying,

Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,

kiss his feet, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]

If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends.

I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,

But the LORD sits enthroned for ever, he has established his throne for judgment;