Job 42:12

12 So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had} fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

Job 42:12 Meaning and Commentary

Job 42:12

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his
beginning
Which verified the words of Bildad, ( Job 8:6 Job 8:7 ) ; though they were spoken by him only by way of supposition. All blessings are of the Lord, temporal and spiritual; and sometimes the last days of a good man are his best, as to temporal things, as were David's, and here Job's; though this is not always the case: however, if their last days are but the best in spiritual things, that is enough: if they have more faith, hope, love, patience, humility, and self-denial, and resignation of will to the will of God; are more holy, humble, spiritually and heavenly minded; have more light and knowledge in divine things; have more peace and joy, and are more fruitful in every good work, and more useful; and often they are in their very last moments most cheerful and comfortable: the best wine is reserved till last;

for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a
thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses:
just double the number of each of what he had before, ( Job 1:3 ) .

Job 42:12 In-Context

10 Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.

11 So all his brothers and all his sisters and all [those who] had known him {before} came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one [gave to him] one ornamental ring of gold.

12 So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had} fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

13 {And he had} seven sons and three daughters.

14 And he called the name of the first Jemimah and the name of the second Keziah and the name of the third Qeren-Happuk.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "And"
• [b]. Literally "And it came to be for him," or "And it was for him"