Job 42:10-17

God Restores Job

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity^[a] and doubled his [previous] possessions.^[b]

11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to his house and dined with him in his house. They offered him sympathy and comfort^[c] concerning all the adversity the Lord had brought on him.^[d] Each one gave him a qesitah,^[e] and a gold earring.

12 So the Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the earlier. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 He named his first [daughter] Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

15 No women as beautiful as Job's daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

16 Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

17 Then Job died, old and full of days.^[f]

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ps 85:1; Jr 29:14; Zph 2:7
• [b]. Jb 1:13-19
• [c]. Jb 2:11; 21:34; Gn 50:21; Ps 69:20
• [d]. Jb 1:13-19; 2:7-11; Isa 45:7
• [e]. The value of the currency is unknown; Gn 33:19; Jos 24:32
• [f]. Gn 25:8; 35:29