Job answered God

Job 42:1-13
[1]Then Job answered the Lord.
[2]I know, Lord, that you are all-powerful;     that you can do everything you want.
[3]You ask how I dare question your wisdom     when I am so very ignorant. I talked about things I did not understand,     about marvels too great for me to know.
[4]You told me to listen while you spoke     and to try to answer your questions.
[5]In the past I knew only what others had told me,     but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
[6]So I am ashamed of all I have said     and repent in dust and ashes.
[7]After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, as my servant Job did.
[8]Now take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and offer them as a sacrifice for yourselves. Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer and not disgrace you as you deserve. You did not speak the truth about me as he did.”
[9]Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar did what the Lord had told them to do, and the Lord answered Job’s prayer.
[10]Then, after Job had prayed for his three friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had had before.
[11]All Job’s brothers and sisters and former friends came to visit him and feasted with him in his house. They expressed their sympathy and comforted him for all the troubles the Lord had brought on him. Each of them gave him some money and a gold ring.
[12]The Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life even more than he had blessed the first. Job owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 2,000 head of cattle, and 1,000 donkeys.
[13]He was the father of seven sons and three daughters.

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