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| [1]And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: -- |
[1]Then Job answered the Lord, and said, |
| [2]Thou hast known that [for] all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is [any] device: |
[2]I know that thou canst do all things, and that there is no thought hid from thee. |
| [3]`Who [is] this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not. |
[3]Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I spoken that I understood not , even things too wonderful for me, and which I knew not. |
| [4]`Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.' |
[4]Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. |
| [5]By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee. |
[5]I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee. |
| [6]Therefore do I loathe [it], And I have repented on dust and ashes. |
[6]Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. |
| [7]And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job. |
[7]Now after that the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord also said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, like my servant Job. |
| [8]And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job. |
[8]Therefore take unto you now 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 I will accept him, lest I should put you to shame, because ye have not spoken of me the thing, which is right, like my servant Job. |
| [9]And they go -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite -- and do as Jehovah hath spoken unto them; and Jehovah doth accept the face of Job. |
[9]So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord had said unto them, and the Lord accepted Job. |
| [10]And Jehovah hath turned [to] the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add [to] all that Job hath -- to double. |
[10]Then the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice so much as he had before. |
| [11]And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold. |
[11]Then came 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 had compassion of him, and comforted him for all the evil, that the Lord had brought upon him, and every man gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. |
| [12]And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. |
[12]So the Lord blessed the last days of Job more than the first: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. |
| [13]And he hath seven sons and three daughters; |
[13]He had also seven sons, and three daughters. |
| [14]and he calleth the name of the one Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. |
[14]And he called the name of one Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. |
| [15]And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren. |
[15]In all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. |
| [16]And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations; |
[16]And after this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his son's sons, even four generations. |
| [17]and Job dieth, aged and satisfied [with] days. |
[17]So Job died, being old, and full of days. |