Job Submits Himself to the LORD 1 WBS Then Job answered the LORD, and said, BSB BSB: Then Job replied to the LORD:
2 WBS I know that thou canst do every thing , and that no thought can be withheld from thee. BSB BSB: “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
3 WBS Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that which I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. BSB BSB: You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
4 WBS Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will ask of thee, and declare thou to me. BSB BSB: You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’
5 WBS I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye seeth thee. BSB BSB: My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.
6 WBS Wherefore I abhor myself , and repent in dust and ashes. BSB BSB: Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
The LORD Rebukes Job’s Friends 8 WBS Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer 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. BSB BSB: So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
9 WBS 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. BSB BSB: So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.
The LORD Blesses Job 10 WBS 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. BSB BSB: After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
11 WBS Then came there to him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they condoled with 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 ear-ring of gold. BSB BSB: All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12 WBS 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. BSB BSB: So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13 WBS He had also seven sons, and three daughters. BSB BSB: And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
14 WBS And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. BSB BSB: He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.
15 WBS 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. BSB BSB: No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
16 WBS After this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. BSB BSB: After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17 WBS So Job died, being old and full of days. BSB BSB: And so Job died, old and full of years.
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