Job 42:10-17

God Restores Job's Fortunes

10 The LORD ¹restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the LORD increased all that Job had twofold.

11 Then all his ²brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they ³consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the LORD had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

12 ⁴The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; ⁵and he had 14,000 * * sheep and 6,000 * camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

13 ⁶He had seven sons and three daughters.

14 He named * the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.

15 In all the land no women were found so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

16 After this, Job lived 140 * years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

17 ⁷And Job died, an old man and full of days.

Job 42:10-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 42

This chapter contains Job's answer to the last speech of the Lord's, in which he acknowledges his omnipotence, and his certain performance of his purposes and pleasure; owns his own folly and ignorance, and confesses his sins; for which he abhorred himself, and of which he repented, Job 42:1-6; it also gives an account of the Lord's decision of the controversy between Job and his friends, blaming them and commending him above them; and ordered them to take sacrifices and go to Job and offer them, who should pray for them and be accepted, which was done, Job 42:7-9; and it closes with a relation of the great prosperity Job was restored unto, in which he lived and died, Job 42:10-17.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 30:3; Job 1:2, 3; Psalms 14:7; Psalms 85:1-3; Psalms 126:1-6
• 2. Job 19:13
• 3. Job 2:11
• 4. Job 1:10; Job 8:7; James 5:11
• 5. Job 1:3
• 6. Job 1:2
• 7. Genesis 15:15; Genesis 25:8; Job 5:26

Footnotes

• [a]. Heb "qesitah"