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| 1 Then Job responded to Yahweh, and said:– |
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| 2 I know that, all things, thou canst do, and that no purpose can be withholden from thee. |
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| 3 Who is it that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I declared, but not understood, things too wonderful for me, which I could not know. |
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| 4 Hear thou, I pray thee, and, I, will speak, I will ask thee, and inform thou me. |
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| 5 By the hearing of the ear, had I heard thee, but, now, mine own eye, hath seen thee. |
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| 6 For this cause, I tremble and repent, on dust and ashes. |
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| 7 And it came to pass, after Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job. |
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 unto my servant Job, and ye shall offer up an ascending-sacrifice in your own behalf, and, Job my servant, shall pray over you,–for, him, will I accept, that I may not deal out to you disgrace, because ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job. |
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 to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them,–and Yahweh accepted Job. |
Went, and did – They obeyed God and were restored to divine favor. R5403:5
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| 10 And, Yahweh himself, turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed in behalf of his friends,–and Yahweh increased all that Job had possessed, unto twice as much. |
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 unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they did eat bread with him in his house,–and shewed sympathy with him and comforted him, over all the calamity which Yahweh had brought upon him,–and they gave him, every one a weight 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 And, Yahweh, blessed the latter end of Job, more than his beginning,–and so he came to have 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 And he came to have 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 Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia,–and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. |
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| 15 And there were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land,–and their father gave them an inheritance, in the midst of 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 Job lived, after this, a hundred and forty years,–and saw his sons and his sons' sons, four generations. |
After this – After his adversities. R5401:5
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| 17 So Job died, old and satisfied with 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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