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.
Leeser Tanakh
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In Context
13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Cross References
Genesis 26:12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold: so the Lord blessed him.
Deuteronomy 8:16Who hath fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; in order to afflict thee, and in order to prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Job 1:3And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and he had a very great store of servants: so that this man was greater than all the sons of the east.
Psalms 107:38He also blesseth them, and they multiply greatly, and he suffereth not their cattle to diminish.
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord it is which maketh rich, and painful labor addeth nothing thereto.
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 →