Book of Job - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 859

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]OB· I0 II Then job answered, and said : I know that Your power is supreme, And Your purpose can not be withstood ! Who am I ? Who hid fact without thougit, And spoke what I nevencould know Of acts that I understood not, Listen, and I will speak, -· I will question, and You must reply I had heard of You once by my ear, But now I have seen with my eyes, So I am convinced, and repent On the dust and in ashes reclined. Now itoccurretl that after ]EHOVAH

had addressed these discourses to job, that j1sH0vAu said to Eliphaz the Themanite, ‘* My anger burns against you and your two friends, for you have not reasoned correctly about Me, like My servant job. So now choose for yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant job, and offer a sacrifice for your- selves, when My servant job will pray for you;-for I will accept his presence,———so that I may not do any injury to you because you have not reasoned correctly about me, like my servant job) Consequently Eliphaz the The-

manite, and Bildad the Shnhite, and Zophar the Namathite, went and did as the EvER—L1v1NG commanded them, and the EvER·L1v1NG accepted the presence of job. Then the Even- Lrvmo removed the miseries of job when he prayed for his friencls, and the EvER—L1vING gave job twice as much as he had formerly. And his brothers and sisters came to him. with all his acquaintance, to con- gratulate him, and ate bread with him in his home, and condoled with him and comforted him over all the suffering that the Loki) had laid upon him, and each of them gave him a lamb, and every one a ring of gold. The Ev1:R—uviNo thus blessed job

more than formerly, and he possessed fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. He also had seven sons, and three daughters, and called the first of them jemima, and the second Kezia, and the name of the third was Karenhepulqand in all the country none were found so beautiful as the daughters of job. Their father gave them fortunes as well as to their brothers. job lived after this a hundred and

forty years, and saw his sons, and grandsons, and greabgrandsons of the fourth generation. Then job died, an old man, and satiated with years. END or was Boox or joe. Rao I2 16