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The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.

His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.

His underparts are like sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.

Upon earth there is not his like, That is made without fear.

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then 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 concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.

So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and 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, even four generations.

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.

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

Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure:

Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge in him.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me.

I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. Selah

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery shafts.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High.

Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

But Jehovah sitteth as king for ever: He hath prepared his throne for judgment;