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Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that You can do all things,
and that no plan of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that conceals counsel without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you must answer Me’.
5 I have heard of You by the hearing of the ears,
but now my eyes have seen You.
6 Therefore I despise myself,
and repent in dust and ashes.”
7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had commanded them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
10 When Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored the prosperity of Job. The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then all his brothers, sisters, and everyone who had known him before came and ate bread with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the trouble that the Lord had brought upon him. Every man gave him a piece of money and each a ring of gold.
12 So the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. He owned fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He called the name of the first Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 15 Throughout the whole land there were no women found as beautiful and the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And Job died, being old and full of days.