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| 1Job replied to the LORD: | 1Then Job answered the LORD, and said, |
| 2"I know that you can do anything and nothing that you plan is impossible. | 2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. |
| 3You asked, 'Who is this that darkens counsel without knowledge?' Well now, I have talked about what I don't understand— awesome things beyond me that I don't know. | 3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. |
| 4Listen now, and I will speak for myself; I'll interrogate you and then inform me. | 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. |
| 5I've heard you with my ears; and now I've seen you with my eyes. | 5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. |
| 6As a result, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes." | 6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. |
| 7After these words had been spoken by the LORD to Job, the LORD spoke to Eliphaz from Teman: "My anger is burning against you along with your two friends, since you haven't spoken correctly about me, as did my servant Job. | 7And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto 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. |
| 8So take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to my servant Job. And bring a whole burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you. I'll encourage him by not responding as your disgraceful folly deserves, since you didn't speak about me correctly as did my servant Job. | 8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up 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. |
| 9So Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamath did precisely as the LORD had spoken to them, because the LORD showed favor to Job. | 9So 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. |
| 10The LORD restored Job's prosperity after he prayed for his friends. The LORD doubled everything that Job had once possessed. | 10And 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. |
| 11Then all his brothers and sisters and all those who knew him before arrived. They ate food with him in his house, mourned for him, and consoled him for all the trouble that the LORD had brought and placed on him. Some gave him gold bullion and some brought gold earrings. | 11Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned 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 earring of gold. |
| 12The LORD blessed Job during the latter part of his life more than the former, since he owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys. | 12So 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. |
| 13He also had seven sons and three daughters. | 13He had also seven sons and three daughters. |
| 14He named the first daughter Jemima, the second Keziah, and the name of the third was Keren-happuch. | 14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. |
| 15No one could find more beautiful women in the whole land than Job's daughters. Their father gave them their inheritance along with their brothers. | 15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. |
| 16Job lived 140 years after this, and saw his children and grandchildren to the fourth generation. | 16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. |
| 17Then Job died at an old age, having lived a full life. | 17So Job died, being old and full of days. |
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