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1 Then Job answered the LORD and said,
2 “I know that you can do all things, and no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ So I have spoken of what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 ‘Hear, please, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you must instruct me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.
6 So I retract and repent in dust and ashes.”
7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept him, so as not to deal with you according to your folly. 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 told them, and the LORD accepted Job. 10 The LORD restored Job's fortunes when he prayed for his friends, and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They shared his grief and comforted him over all the calamity the LORD had brought upon him. Each gave him one piece of money and one gold ring.
12 The LORD blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 pairs of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15 In all the land no women were found as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
16 After this Job lived 140 years and saw his sons and his sons' sons, four generations. 17 Then Job died, old and full of days.