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[1]ThenJob answered the Lord, and said,
[2]Iknow that thou canst do all things, and that there is no thought hid from thee.
[3]Whois he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I spoken that I understood not , even things too wonderful for me, and which I knew not.
[4]Hear,I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
[5]Ihave heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee.
[6]ThereforeI abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
[7]Nowafter that the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord also said unto 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, like my servant Job.
[8]Thereforetake 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 I will accept him, lest I should put you to shame, because ye have not spoken of me the thing, which is right, like my servant Job.
[9]SoEliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord had said unto them, and the Lord accepted Job.
[10]Thenthe Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice so much as he had before.
[11]Thencame 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 had compassion of him, and comforted him for all the evil, that the Lord had brought upon him, and every man gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
[12]Sothe Lord blessed the last days of Job more than the first: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
[13]Hehad also seven sons, and three daughters.
[14]Andhe called the name of one Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.
[15]Inall the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
[16]Andafter this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his son's sons, even four generations.
[17]SoJob died, being old, and full of days.
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