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| 1 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said, |
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2 I know that thou canst do all things,
And that no purpose of thine can be restrained.
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3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge?
Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not,
Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
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4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak;
I will ask of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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5 I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear;
But now mine eye seeth thee:
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6 Wherefore I abhor myself,
And repent in dust and ashes. |
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| 7 And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. |
Against thee – Job's three friends are severely reproved by God. R5403:5
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| 8 Now therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. |
Burnt offering – These sacrifices were not sin-offerings, but merely a manifestation of a good desire or heart and a reverence for God. R4666:6; Q552:5
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| 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as Jehovah commanded them: and Jehovah accepted Job. |
Went, and did – They obeyed God and were restored to divine favor. R5403:5
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| 10 And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before. |
Twice as much – Type of the final restoration of all that was lost in Adam, with the blessings of added experience to make them wise. R5803:4
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| 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold. |
All the evil – Job recognized his adversities as God-permitted (Job 2:10), because Satan could do no more than God would permit him to do. R1800:1
God is not the author of sin (evil). R1799:3, R1800:2
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| 12 So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. |
Latter end of Job – Typifying mankind, in some respects. R5403:6, R1507:4, R5803:4
Foreshadowing the blessings of restitution: how the tribulations of mankind will eventually work out for good to those who love God. R5333:4; PD26/37
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| 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. |
Sons and ... daughters – The same number as before, a restitution. R5403:5
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| 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. |
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| 15 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. |
Daughters ... inheritance – Foreshadowing the time when the curse will be entirely lifted and woman will find her natural and honored place at the side of her noble husband as his helper and companion "heirs together with him of the grace of life." (1 Pet. 3:7) R1554:1
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| 16 And after this Job lived a hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. |
After this – After his adversities. R5401:5
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| 17 So Job died, being old and full of days. |
Being old – Probably over 200 years in all, indicating that he belonged to the Patriarchal age. R5401:5, R1505:5
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