First Reading
Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17
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Then Job answered the Lord, and said :
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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.
- 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.
- 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 names of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibil.
- 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, and he died an old man, and full of days.
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain