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How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them!
    He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.

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11 Be wise, my child,[a] and make my heart glad.
    Then I will be able to answer my critics.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:11 Hebrew my son.

12 So the Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters. 14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15 In all the land no women were as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers.

16 Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.

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Their children are abandoned far from help;
    they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.

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23 He lived to see three generations of descendants of his son Ephraim, and he lived to see the birth of the children of Manasseh’s son Makir, whom he claimed as his own.[a]

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  1. 50:23 Hebrew who were born on Joseph’s knees.

47 He is the God who pays back those who harm me;
    he subdues the nations under me

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He had seven sons and three daughters.

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