42:1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
42:2 I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no
thought can be withheld from thee.
42:3 Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge?
therefore have I uttered that which I understood not; things
too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will ask of thee,
and declare thou to me.
42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my
eye seeth thee.
42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
42:7 And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words
to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is
kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have
not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job
[hath].
42:8 Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams,
and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a
burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him
will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that
ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my
servant Job.
42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar
the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded
them: the LORD also accepted Job.
42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed
for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had
before.
42:11 Then came there to him all his brethren, and all his
sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before,
and ate bread with him in his house: and they condoled with
him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had
brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and
every one an ear-ring of gold.
42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his
beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand
camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
42:13 He had also seven sons, and three daughters.
42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name
of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
42:15 And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the
daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among
their brethren.
42:16 After this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw
his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.
42:17 So Job died, [being] old and full of days.
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