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Job chapter 42

Then Job answered Yahweh:I know you can do anything. No of yours can be .“” So I spoke of things I never understood, far past me, things I never knew.“Listen now, and I will speak. ”I had heard of you — . Now .So I , and I am , .After Yahweh had finished saying all this to Job, he said to Eliphaz from , “I am angry at you and at your two friends, because you did not speak , the way Job did.So take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and and not treat you the way deserves — because you did not speak what is true about me, the way my servant Job did.”So Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah went and did what Yahweh had told them, and Yahweh .When Job prayed for his friends, Yahweh , and then gave him before.Then all his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came to him and ate a meal with him in his house. They grieved with him and comforted him over all . Each one gave him and .Yahweh in his later years than he had at the start: , six thousand camels, a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.He had .He named the first one , the second , and the third .Nowhere in the land were there women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them .After this Job lived , and he saw his children and his grandchildren — .Then Job died, old and .