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I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.’<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.” Conclusion: The LORD Blesses Job<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes. In fact, the LORD gave him twice as much as before!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the LORD had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the LORD blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He had also seven sons and three daughters.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He named his first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In all the land no women were as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Job died, an old man, and full of days.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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