Chapter 42

¹ Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

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² I know that thou canst do all things,

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³ For who is he that hides counsel from thee?

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⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak:

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⁵ I have heard the report of thee by the ear before;

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⁶ Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted:

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⁷ And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite,

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⁸ Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams,

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⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Minaean,

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¹⁰ And the Lord prospered Job:

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¹¹ And all his brethren and his sisters heard

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¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning:

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¹³ And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

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¹⁴ And he called the first, Day,

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¹⁵ And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world:

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¹⁶ And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years:

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¹⁷ And Job died, an old man and full of days:

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¹⁷ a And it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up.

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¹⁷ b This man is described in the Syriac book

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¹⁷ c And having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon.

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¹⁷ d And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over:

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¹⁷ e And [his] friends who came to him were

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