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¹ Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said of him? Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me? ² Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole world under heaven is mine?

³ I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his ¹antagonist. ⁴ Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate? ⁵ Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth. ⁶ His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone. ⁷ One part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them. ⁸ They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated. ⁹ At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning

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star. ¹⁰ Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad. ¹¹ Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals. ¹² His ²breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ¹³ And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs. ¹⁴ The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved. ¹⁵ His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil. ¹⁶ And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth. ¹⁷ If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, either with the spear or the breast-plate. ¹⁸ For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood. ¹⁹ The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass. ²⁰ Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand. ²¹ His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay. ²² He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment, ²³ and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range. ²⁴ There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be ³sported with by my angels. ²⁵ He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.

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¹ Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

² I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee. ³ For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me. ⁵ I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee. ⁶ Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have ⁴fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

⁷ And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thæmanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job has. ⁸ Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a ⁵burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

⁹ So Eliphaz the Thæmanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minæan, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

¹⁰ And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them their sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what ⁶he had before. ¹¹ And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to

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him, and so did all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a ⁷lamb, and four drachms' weight of gold, even of unstamped gold.

¹² And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures. ¹³ And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthæa's horn. ¹⁵ And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer women than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.

¹⁶ And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were ⁸two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up.

This man is ⁹described in the Syriac book as living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of ¹⁰Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thæman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And his friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thæmanites, Baldad sovereign the Sauchæans, Sophar king of the Minæans.

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