Job 42:12
And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
13And he had seven sons, and three daughters.
Cross References
Genesis 26:12And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
Deuteronomy 8:16And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee,
Job 1:3And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceeding great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.
Psalms 107:38And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord maketh men rich: neither shall affliction be joined to them.
1 Timothy 6:17Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy,)
Matthew Henry on Job 42:11-17
Job's Renewed Prosperity; The Death of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of… Read the whole commentary →