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Job 42

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

42:1
Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
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42:2
I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee.
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42:3
For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?
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But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.
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I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.
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Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.
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42:7
And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thæmanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].
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42:8
Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but for his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.
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42:9
So Eliphaz the Thæmanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minæan, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.
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42:10
And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.
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42:11
And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachms' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].
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42:12
And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.
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42:13
And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
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42:14
And he called the first, Day, and the second, Casia, and the third, Amalthæa's horn.
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42:15
And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.
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42:16
And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.
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42:17
And Job died, an old man and full of days:
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