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for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job hath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now therefore, take unto you 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 him will I accept, that I do not unto you aught unseemly; for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the LORD changed the fortune of Job, when he prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then came there 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 they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He had also seven sons and three daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he called the name of the first, <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>Jemimah; and the name of the second, <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">b</a></span>Keziah; and the name of the third, <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">c</a></span>Keren-happuch. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Job died, being old and full of days.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} That is, Dove. <br>{fn: b} That is, Cassia. <br>{fn: c} That is, Horn of eye-paint.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/41.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 41"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 41" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/job/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>