| 1. Then Job answered God and said, |
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א. |
| 2. "I knew that You can do everything and no design is restrained from You. |
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| 3. Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I told but I did not understand; they are hidden from me and I did not know. |
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ג. |
| 4. Hearken now and I will speak; I will ask You and [You] inform me. |
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| 5. I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, and now, my eye has seen You. |
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ה. |
| 6. Therefore I despise [my life], and I will be consoled on dust and ashes." |
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| 7. Now it came to pass after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and your two companions because you did not speak correctly, as did My servant Job. |
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ז. |
| 8. And now, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and Job My servant will pray for you, for I will favor him not to do anything unseemly to you, for you did not speak to Me correctly, as did My servant Job." |
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ח. |
| 9. Now Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord favored Job. |
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ט. |
| 10. Now the Lord returned Job's captivity when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had had before. |
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| 11. Now all his brothers and all his sisters and all his previous acquaintances came to him and ate a meal in his house, and they bemoaned him and consoled him concerning all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him, and they gave him, each one one piece of money and each one one golden nose ring. |
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| 12. Now the Lord blessed Job's end more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand flocks and six thousand camels and a thousand yoke of cattle and a thousand she-donkeys. |
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יב. |
| 13. And he had fourteen sons and three daughters. |
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יג. |
| 14. And he named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. |
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יד. |
| 15. Nowhere in the land were women as beautiful as Job's daughters to be found, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. |
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טו. |
| 16. Now Job lived thereafter one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his sons' sons for four generations. |
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טז. |
| 17. Then Job died, being old and sated with days. |
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