Job's Confession and Repentance
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Then Job answered the LORD and said:
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2'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things 3too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
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I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
The Lord Rebukes Job's Friends
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After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz 6the Temanite: "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
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Now therefore take 7seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and 8offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall 9pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."
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10So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
The Lord Restores Job's Fortunes
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And the LORD 11restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job 12twice as much as he had before.
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Then came to him all his 13brothers and sisters and all who had 14known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they 15showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evilb that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him 16a piece of moneyc and 17a ring of gold.
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And the LORD blessed 18the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 19 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
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And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)