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CHAP. XLII.

ND Iob answering our Lord, sayd: I know that thou canst doe al things, and no cogitation is hid from thee. Who is this, that concealeth counsel without knowledge? Therfore haue I spoken vnwisely, and the things that did exceede my knowledge beyond measure. Heare (I beseech thee) and I wil speake: I wil aske thee, and doe thou tel me. With the hearing of the eare I haue heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee. Therfore I reprehend myself, and I doe penance in imbers and ashes. And 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. Take 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. Eliphaz 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. Our Lord also was turned at the penance of Iob, when he prayed for his freinds. And our Lord added al things whatsoeuer had been Iobs, double. And 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. And 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. And he had seuen sonnes, and three daughters. And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, & the name of the third Cornustibii. And 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. And 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. Rh