C.
Job gaining God in his personal experience and abhorring himself
42:1-6
Job 42
:1
42:1
Then Job answered Jehovah and said,
Job 42
:2
42:2
I know that You
acan do all things
And that no purpose of Yours can be restrained.
Job 42
:3
42:3
Who is this who hides counsel without
aknowledge?
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
Things too
bwonderful for me, which I did not know.
Job 42
:4
42:4
Hear now, and I will speak;
aI will ask of You, and You shall inform me.
Job 42
:5
42:5
I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye has
1aseen You;
Job 42
:6
42:6
Therefore I
1abhor myself, and I
arepent In dust and ashes.
V.
Jehovah's dealing with the three friends of Job
42:7-9
Job 42
:7
42:7
And after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken concerning Me that which is right, as My servant Job
1has.
Job 42
:8
42:8
Now therefore take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer them as a
aburnt offering for yourselves. And My servant Job will
bpray for you; for I will accept him, so that I do not deal with you
according to your folly; for you have not spoken concerning Me that which is right, as My servant Job has.
Job 42
:9
42:9
So 1Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Jehovah told them; and Jehovah accepted Job.
VI.
Job's end
42:10-17
Job 42
:10
42:10
And Jehovah
aturned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends, and Jehovah gave Job
1btwice as much as he had before.
Job 42
:11
42:11
And all his brothers and all his sisters and all his previous acquaintances came to him and ate bread with him in his house. And they consoled and comforted him for all the misfortune that Jehovah had brought upon him. And each gave to him a piece of money, and each, a gold ring.
Job 42
:12
42:12
Thus Jehovah blessed Job’s latter
aend more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand
bsheep and six thousand camels and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.
Job 42
:13
42:13
And he had
aseven sons and three daughters.
Job 42
:14
42:14
And he named the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
Job 42
:15
42:15
And in all the land no women were found as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
Job 42
:16
42:16
And after this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; and he saw his children and his grandchildren,
even four generations.
Job 42
:17
42:17
And Job died, old and full of days
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