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THE BOOK

CHAP. XLII.

Holie Iob instructed and comforted by Gods discourse, acknowlegeth his fault, and craueth pardon for his ouersight in speach or cogitation. 7. God iustifieth his cause against his freinds. 9. They offer sacrifice for their offence. 10. Al things prosper with Iob, double to that he had before: 16. and he dieth happily.

AND Iob answering our Lord, sayd: 2I know that thou canst doe al things, and no cogitation is hid from thee. 3Who is this, that concealeth counsel without knowledge? Therfore haue I spoken [1] vnwisely, and the things that did exceede my knowledge beyond measure. 4Heare (I beseech thee) and I wil speake: I wil aske thee, and doe thou tel me. 5With the hearing of the eare I haue heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee. 6Therfore [2] I reprehend myself, and I doe penance in imbers and ashes. 7And after our Lord spake these words to Iob, he sayd to Eliphaz the Themanite: My furie is wrath against thee, and against thy two freinds, because ″ you haue not spoken right before me, as my seruant Iob. 8Take therfore vnto you ″ seuen oxen, and seuen rammes, and goe to my seruant Iob, and offer holocauste for your selues: and my seruant ″ Iob shal pray for you: his face I wil receiue, that the follie be not imputed to you: for you haue not spoken right things before me, as my seruant Iob. 9Eliphaz therfore the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite went, and did as our Lord had spoken to them, and our Lord receiued the face of Iob. 10Our Lord also was turned at the [3] penance of Iob, when he prayed for his freinds. And our Lord added al things whatsoeuer had been Iobs, double. 11And al his brethren came to him, and al his sisters, and al that knew him before, and they did eate bread with him in his house: and wagged the head vpon him, & comforted him vpon al the euil that God had brought in vpon him. And euerie man gaue him one ewe, and one earelet of gold. 12And our Lord blessed the last daies of Iob more then his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheepe, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13And he had [4] seuen sonnes, and three daughters. 14And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, & the name of the third Cornustibii. 15And there were not found in al the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritance among their brethren. 16And Iob liued after these things, an hundred fourtie yeares, and he saw his children, and his childrens children, vnto the fourth generation, and he died an old man, and ful of daies.

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  1. ↑ Iob here simply acknowledged his errour in speaking so much in defence of his owne innocencie, & so litle of Gods prouidence in afflicting him, for his more merite, & Gods more glorie.
  2. ↑ Before he defended a truth against his opposite freinds, now with more resignation he contented himself with his affliction.
  3. ↑ Iob did penance both for himself and others.
  4. ↑ In that he had al other things double, and children in the same number as before, it is a signe that the former perished not, but died in good state.
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