Bible verses about "job" | DouayRheims

¹⁰ The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. ¹¹ And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought upon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold. ¹² And the Lord 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. ¹³ And he had seven sons, and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibii. ¹⁵ And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. ¹⁶ And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation,

²⁴ Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to be wise, shall not dare to behold him.

⁷ So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head: ⁸ And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill. ⁹ And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die. ¹⁰ And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

¹ Then Job answered the Lord, and said: ² I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from thee. ³ Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge. ⁴ Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me. ⁵ With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee. ⁶ Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

¹⁶ And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation,

¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

²⁰ Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, ²¹ And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. ²² In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.

¹ There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.