Job 1:2

He had seven sons and three daughters.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

In Context

1In the land named Uz, there was a man named Job. He was a very godly/righteous [DOU] man, who greatly respected/revered God and always avoided doing evil things.

3He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 1,000 oxen, and 500 female donkeys. He also had many servants. He was the richest man in all the area east of the Jordan River.

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Cross References

Esther 5:11and he boasted to them about being very rich, and about having many children. He also boasted that the king had greatly honored him, and that the king had ◄promoted him/given him the second-most important job in the empire►, so that all the other officials had to respect him.

Job 42:12Then Yahweh blessed Job in the second half of his life more than he had blessed him in the first half of his life. He now acquired/owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 2,000 oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Psalms 107:38He blesses the people, and the women give birth to many children, and they have large herds of cattle.

Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM]; she will give birth to many children. Your children who sit around your table will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it [SIM].

Matthew Henry on Job 1:2-4

Job to Song of Solomon These five books of scripture which are contained in this third volume and which I have here endeavoured, according to the measure of the gift given to me, to explain and improve, for the use of those who desire to read them, not only with understanding, but to their edification—though they have the same divine origin, design, and authority, as those that went before, yet, upon some accounts, are of a very different nature from them, and from the rest of the sacred writings, such variety of… Read the whole commentary →

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