Job 42:12
The Lord blessed the last part of Job's life more than the first part. Now he owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
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13Job also had seven sons and three daughters.
Cross References
Genesis 26:12Isaac sowed grain that year, and the Lord blessed him with a harvest that was a hundred times what he planted.
Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the desert with manna that your forefathers had never known, humbling you and testing you, so that eventually you would do well in the future.
Job 1:3He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred teams of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, as well as many servants. He was more wealthy than anyone else in the East.
Psalms 107:38He takes care of them, and their numbers increase dramatically—their cattle too!
Proverbs 10:22The Lord's blessing makes you rich, and he doesn't add any sadness to accompany it.
1 Timothy 6:17Warn those who are rich in the present world not to become proud. Tell them not to place their trust in wealth that is so insecure but in God who so freely gives us everything for our enjoyment.
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 →