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42:1-6
42:1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
42:2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
42:3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
You can do anything and can read everyone's mind. [1]
42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
I've heard you speak before, but now I can see you. [2]
42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
So I hate myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
42:7-9
42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to 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, as my servant Job hath.
I'm mad at you for not speaking well enought of me, as Job has. [3]
42:8 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
So take seven bullocks and seven rams and offer them to me as a burnt offering.Job will pray for you, and I'll accept your offerings.
42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
42:10-17
42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
42:11 Then came there 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 they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
Eliphaz and his friends spent many chapters defending God and blaming Job. Job defended himself, while saying nothing good about God, except that he could do everying and read people's minds. So what was God mad at them for?
God and Satan killed Job's first set of kids (DWB). He replaced them with ten more, seven sons and three daughters, just like the originals. The Bible doesn't explain why God didn't give Job twice as many children, like he did with his animals. And it says nothing about his wife (who in 2:9 said he should curse God and die). Was she still around? Or did God replace her with a newer, prettier wife? And, lastly, were Job's new children made in the usual way? And if so, who was their mom?
Job's three new daughters were even prettier that his original ones! The new ones even had names: Jemima, Keziad, Kerenhappuch.
(This is where Job's Daughters International comes from.)
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