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Job

Then Job replied to the Lord :

"I know that you can do all things;^(a) no purpose of yours can be thwarted.^(b)

You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?'^(c) Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.^(d)

"You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.'^(e)

My ears had heard of you^(f) but now my eyes have seen you.^(g)

Therefore I despise myself^(h) and repent⁽ⁱ⁾ in dust and ashes."^(j)

After the Lord had said these things to Job^(k), he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends,^(l) because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.^(m)

So now take seven bulls and seven rams⁽ⁿ⁾ and go to my servant Job^(o) and sacrifice a burnt offering^(p) for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer^(q) and not deal with you according to your folly.^(r) You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has."^(s)

So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite^(t) did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.^(u)

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes^(v) and gave him twice as much as he had before.^(w)

All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before^(x) came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him,^(y) and each one gave him a piece of silver^[a] and a gold ring.

The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.

Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

And so Job died, an old man and full of years.^(z)