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| | Job 42:1 | Then Job replied to the LORD:
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| | Job 42:2 | "I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you.
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| | Job 42:3 | You ask, 'Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?' It is I. And I was talking about things I did not understand, things far too wonderful for me.
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| | Job 42:4 | "You said, 'Listen and I will speak! I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.'
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| | Job 42:5 | "I had heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
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| | Job 42:6 | I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance."
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| | Job 42:7 | After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "I am angry with you and with your two friends, for you have not been right in what you said about me, as my servant Job was.
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| | Job 42:8 | Now take seven young 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 been right in what you said about me, as my servant Job was."
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| | Job 42:9 | So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
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| | Job 42:10 | When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes. In fact, the LORD gave him twice as much as before!
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| | Job 42:11 | 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.
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| | Job 42:12 | So the LORD blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
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| | Job 42:13 | He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters.
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| | Job 42:14 | He named his first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
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| | Job 42:15 | In all the land there were no other women as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers.
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| | Job 42:16 | Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.
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| | Job 42:17 | Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, good life.
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