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Then Job answered the LORD and said,

"I know that ^(C1)You can do all things, And that no plan is impossible for You.

'Who is this who ^(C1)conceals advice without knowledge?' Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things ^(C2)too wonderful for me, which I do not know.

'Please listen, and I will speak; I will ^(C1)ask You, and You instruct me.'

-"I have ^(C1)heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my ^(C2)eye sees You;

Therefore I retract, And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes."

It came about after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, ^(C1)as My servant Job has.

"Now therefore, take for yourselves ^(C1)seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a ^(C2)burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will ^(C3)pray for you. ^(C4)For I will ^(F1)accept him so as not to do with you as your foolishness deserves, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has."

So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD told them; and the LORD ^(F1)accepted Job.

The LORD also ^(C1)restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the LORD increased double all that Job had.