Job’s reply to God indicating repentance
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Then Job answered the LORD and said, 2 📚✭“I know that you can do everything, and that no purpose can be withheld from you. 3 📚✭You asked, ‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have spoken things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4 📚✭Listen, I pray you, and I will speak. You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer me.’ 5 📚✭I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see you. 6 📚✭Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes”.God speaks to Eliphaz
7 📚✭And this is what happened after the LORD had spoken those words to Job: the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is burning against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 📚✭Therefore take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves; and my servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept him. Otherwise I will deal with you as your foolishness deserves; because you have not spoken to me what is right, as my servant Job has”.
The obedience of Eliphaz and his friends
9 📚So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did✭ as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job.
God blesses Job
10 📚✭And the LORD restored the well-being of✭ Job, when he prayed for his friends. Also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 📚Then all his brothers and all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house. And they consoled him and comforted him about the whole disaster that the LORD had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver✭ and each one a gold ring.
12 📚✭So the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his first; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
13 📚✭He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. 15 📚In all the land no women could be found as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
Job’s long life