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His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Out of his mouth go forth flames; sparks of fire leap out:

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a boiling pot and cauldron.

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

In his neck lodgeth strength, and terror danceth before him.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are fused upon him, they cannot be moved.

His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether [millstone].

His under parts are sharp potsherds: he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.

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

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

And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring.

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

But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot together, against Jehovah and against his anointed:

Then will he speak to them in his anger, and in his fierce displeasure will he terrify them:

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!

With my voice will I call to Jehovah, and he will answer me from the hill of his holiness. Selah.

If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,