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“Will they (the fathers) not teach you and tell you,
And utter words from their hearts [the deepest part of their nature]?

And show you the secrets of wisdom!
For sound wisdom has two sides.
Know then that God forgets a part of your iniquity.

But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee;


“He pours contempt on princes and nobles
And loosens the belt of the strong [disabling them].

He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Be ye afraid - on your part - of the face of the sword, because, wrath, bringeth the punishments of the sword, to the end ye may know the Almighty.

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?


“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],
The faintest whisper of His voice!
Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”

That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it:

Seeing it hath been hid from the eyes of every living thing, and, from the bird of the heavens, hath it been concealed?

The fires of Abaddon will burn, disrupting every part of my eternal reward."

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?

And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south?

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Pride of strong shields shut up with a seal of straitness.

All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him. Each one gave him a qesitah and a gold earring.

So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.