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Yes, it is wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let the ransom's greatness turn you aside.

he stops all human beings from working so that everyone whom he has made may know it.

So then, they do not look at the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and has cleansed them.

to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?

So Job answered Yahweh and said,

"Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?

So then, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for I will certainly accept his prayer, so that it will not be done with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has."

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and Yahweh accepted Job's prayer.

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one gave to him one ornamental ring of gold.

So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. Thus he had fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water that gives its fruit in its season; its leaf also does not wither. Therefore all that he does prospers.

Not so the wicked. Instead, they are like the chaff that the wind scatters.

So then, O kings, be wise. Be warned, O rulers of the earth.

so that I may tell of all your praises. In the gates of the daughter of Zion let me rejoice in your salvation.

He is crushed; he is bowed down; so the helpless host falls by his might.

to render judgment for the fatherless and the oppressed so that a mere mortal from the earth will no longer cause terror.

So he bowed the heavens and came down with a thick cloud under his feet.

So he brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.

He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.