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Job

Chapter 42
{Verses 1-6: Job Rebounds}
1-2~~Then Job replied to Jehovah/God, and said, 2~~

"I know that You can do all things.

No plan of Yours can be thwarted.

3~~You {God} asked,
"Who is he who obscured My counsel without knowledge?"

Surely I {Job} spoke of things I did not understand
  {meaning "I knew the doctrine, but did not properly make the
  application to experience'}.

Things too wonderful for me to know.

4~~You said, "Listen now and I {God} will speak . . .

I will question you {Job} . . . and you will answer Me."

5~~My ears have heard You . . . but now my eyes have seen You
  {we do not 'see God' in person - this means Job 'sees' God through
  His Word - He understands the doctrine}.

6~~Therefore I condemn myself

  {the self-judgement of rebound - I Corinthians 11:30-31 - 'if we judge ourselves, we shall not be judged'}

I 'changed my mind' on dust and ashes.

{Note: This is Job's confessing his sin of 'blaming God' in connection to this 'evidence testing'.}

{Verses 7-17 Epilogue (Fantastically Difficult Ancient Hebrew Poetry)}
7~~And it was so,
that after Jehovah/God
had said these words/'doctrinal communication' {dabar}s to Job
  {the last few chapters were said in private},
Jehovah/God said to Eliphaz the Temanite
  {who by speaking first indicates he was the leader of the three
  friends},

"I am angry with you
  {an anthropopathism - ascribing to God characteristics that He
  does not possess as part of 'language of accommodation' so we
  can understand},
and against your two friends . . .

because you have not spoken
that which is accurate
with reference to Me . . .
as My servant Job has.

8~~Therefore, you take now seven bullocks and seven rams
  {this book predates the Mosaic Law - this is the rebound offering
  that God required of Eliphaz and the other two}
and go to my servant Job,
and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves . . .

and My servant Job shall pray for you
  {now in fellowship, Job is acting like a Priest and offering
  intercessory prayer on behalf of his former friends} . . .

for only his person {Job's} . . . will I {God} accept

that I may not deal out to you
the awful disgrace that you deserve . . .

for you have not spoken accurately concerning Me . . .

as My servant Job has.

9~~So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite
and Zophar the Naamathite went,
and did as Jehovah/God commanded them.

Jehovah/God accepted the person of Job
  {meaning God accepted the intercessory prayer of Job on behalf of
  his friends}.

{Restoration of Job's Escrow Blessings}
10~~After he prayed for his friends,
Jehovah/God restored the prosperity of Job.

Jehovah/God gave Job twice as much as he had before
  {God doubled Job's escrow blessings for time}.

{Restoration of Job's Social Life}
11~~Then came there unto him all his brothers, and all his sisters,
and everyone who had known him before,
came and dined with him in his castle.

And they expressed their sympathy to him,
and comforted him concerning all the disaster {evidence testing}
that Jehovah/God had administered to him.

Every man also gave him a 'large chunk of money'
  {q@siytah - we do not know the currency they used back in this
  day was probably like an ingot of gold or silver},
and a gold ring.

{Perpetuation of Job's Prosperity for 140 Years}
12~~Consequently, Jehovah/God blessed
the latter end of Job life more than the beginning {of his life}.

For he had fourteen thousand sheep,
and six thousand camels,
and a thousand yoke of oxen,
and a thousand she asses.

13~~Furthermore, he had also seven sons and three daughters.

14~~He named the name of the first {daughter}, Jemima
  {Y@miymah - means 'a dove' - could refer to the dove off of Noah's
  ark - a 'new beginning' and in Matthew we saw the Holy Spirit
  came onto Jesus at His Baptism};

and the name of the second Kezia
  {Q@tsiy`ah means fragrance - means God is satisfied with a
  mature believer - so their 'fragrance' is pleasing to Him - the
  fulfillment of His Plan and remember it is God Who is Glorified};

and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch
  {Qeren Hap-puwk -' flashes of Glory' - God is glorified through
  successful evidence testing of the mature believer}.

{Impact of Blessings By Association}
15~~furthermore in all the land
no where were women found as beautiful as the daughters of Job.

And their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers
  {remember in ancient times only the boys inherited - so this was a
  big statement that Job was making}.

16~~After this
  {after the end of Job's evidence testing}
Job lived one hundred and forty years.

He saw his sons,
and his sons' sons . . .
even to four generations.

{Principal of Dying Grace}
17~~Eventually Job died . . .
an old man . . .
and full of very happy days.