Memory Palace

Outline

Adapted from the NIV Study Bible outline via Bible Study Tools. Verses: ESV.

• I. Prologue (ch.1-2)

  1. Job's Happiness (1:1-5)

     1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

     2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

     3 He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

     4 His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

     5 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

  2. Job's Testing Satan's first accusation Job's faith despite loss of family and property Satan's second accusation Job's faith during personal suffering The coming of the three friends (2:11-13)

     11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

     12 And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven.

     13 And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

• II. Dialogue-Dispute (ch.3-27)

  1. Job's Opening Lament (ch.3)

     1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

     2 And Job said:

     3 “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’

     4 Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.

     5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

     6 That night — let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

     7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.

     8 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

     9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning, 10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

     11 “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

     12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

     13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest, 14 with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves, 15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

     16 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

     17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

     18 There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

     19 The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

     20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, 21 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

     23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

     24 For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

     25 For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.

     26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”

  2. First Cycle of Speeches Eliphaz Job's reply Bildad Job's reply Zophar Job's reply (ch.12-14)

     1 Then Job answered and said:

     2 “No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

     3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

     4 I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

     5 In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.

     6 The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.

     7 “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; 8 or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

     9 Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

     10 In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

     11 Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

     12 Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

     13 “With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.

     14 If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

     15 If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

     16 With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

     17 He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

     18 He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

     19 He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.

     20 He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

     21 He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.

     22 He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.

     23 He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

     24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.

     25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

     1 “Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

     2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

     3 But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

     4 As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

     5 Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!

     6 Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

     7 Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?

     8 Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God?

     9 Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

     10 He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.

     11 Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?

     12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

     13 “Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

     14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

     15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.

     16 This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.

     17 Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

     18 Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.

     19 Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

     20 Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face: 21 withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.

     22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.

     23 How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

     24 Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

     25 Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

     26 For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

     27 You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.

     28 Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

     1 “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

     2 He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

     3 And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

     4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

     5 Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass, 6 look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

     7 “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.

     8 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

     10 But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

     11 As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up, 12 so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.

     13 Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

     14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.

     15 You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.

     16 For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin; 17 my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.

     18 “But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place; 19 the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.

     20 You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.

     21 His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

     22 He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.”

  3. Second Cycle of Speeches Eliphaz Job's reply Bildad Job's reply Zophar Job's reply (ch.21)

     1 Then Job answered and said:

     2 “Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.

     3 Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

     4 As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?

     5 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.

     6 When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

     7 Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

     8 Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.

     9 Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

     10 Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.

     11 They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.

     12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

     13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

     14 They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

     15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

     16 Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

     17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

     18 That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

     19 You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

     20 Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

     21 For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

     22 Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?

     23 One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure, 24 his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.

     25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.

     26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

     27 “Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

     28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

     29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony 30 that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

     31 Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?

     32 When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.

     33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.

     34 How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

  4. Third Cycle of Speeches Eliphaz Job's reply Bildad Job's reply (ch.26)

     1 Then Job answered and said:

     2 “How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!

     3 How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

     4 With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?

     5 The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.

     6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

     7 He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

     8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.

     9 He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.

     10 He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

     11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.

     12 By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

     13 By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

     14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

  5. Job's Closing Discourse (ch.27)

     1 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

     2 “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, 3 as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, 4 my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

     5 Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

     6 I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

     7 “Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

     8 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?

     9 Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

     10 Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

     11 I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

     12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

     13 “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:

     14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.

     15 Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep.

     16 Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay, 17 he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

     18 He builds his house like a moth's, like a booth that a watchman makes.

     19 He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.

     20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

     21 The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

     22 It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.

     23 It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place.

• III. Interlude on Wisdom (ch.28)

  1 “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.

  2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.

  3 Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

  4 He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.

  5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

  6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

  7 “That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it.

  8 The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.

  9 “Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.

  10 He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

  11 He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

  12 “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

  13 Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.

  14 The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

  15 It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.

  16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

  17 Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

  18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.

  19 The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.

  20 “From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?

  21 It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air.

  22 Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

  23 “God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.

  24 For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

  25 When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure, 26 when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, 27 then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.

  28 And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

• IV. Monologues (29:1)

  1. Job's Call for Vindication His past honor and blessing His present dishonor and suffering His protestations of innocence and final oath (ch.31)

     1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

     2 What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

     3 Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?

     4 Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?

     5 “If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit;

     6 (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) 7 if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands, 8 then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.

     9 “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door, 10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her.

     11 For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; 12 for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.

     13 “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, 14 what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

     15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

     16 “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it 18 (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow ), 19 if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, 20 if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, 21 if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, 22 then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

     23 For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

     24 “If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence, 25 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had found much, 26 if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, 27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand, 28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.

     29 “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him

     30 (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse), 31 if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’ 32 (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler), 33 if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart, 34 because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors —

     35 Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

     36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown;

     37 I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

     38 “If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together, 39 if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last, 40 let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

  2. Elihu's Speeches Introduction The speeches themselves First speech Second speech Third speech Fourth speech (ch.36-37)

     1 And Elihu continued, and said:

     2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.

     3 I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

     4 For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

     5 “Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.

     6 He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.

     7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

     8 And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction, 9 then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

     10 He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.

     11 If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

     12 But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

     13 “The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

     14 They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.

     15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.

     16 He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

     17 “But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.

     18 Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

     19 Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?

     20 Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.

     21 Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

     22 Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

     23 Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?

     24 “Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.

     25 All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.

     26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

     27 For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain, 28 which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.

     29 Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

     30 Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.

     31 For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.

     32 He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.

     33 Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also declare that he rises.

     1 “At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.

     2 Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

     3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

     4 After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

     5 God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

     6 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.

     7 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.

     8 Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.

     9 From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.

     10 By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.

     11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

     12 They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.

     13 Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.

     14 “Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

     15 Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

     16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge, 17 you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?

     18 Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?

     19 Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

     20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

     21 “And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

     22 Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty.

     23 The Almighty — we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

     24 Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

  3. Divine Discourses God's first discourse Job's response God's second discourse Job's repentance (42:1-6)

     1 Then Job answered the LORD and said:

     2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

     3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

     4 ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’

     5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; 6 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

• V. Epilogue (42:7-17)

  1. God's Verdict (42:7-9)

     7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

     8 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

     9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.

  2. Job's Restoration (42:10-17)

     10 And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

     11 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

     12 And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

     13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

     14 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.

     15 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

     16 And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

     17 And Job died, an old man, and full of days.