Job 42:13

And he also had seven more sons and three more daughters.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

In Context

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.

14He named the first daughter Jemimah, he named the second daughter Keziah, and he named the third daughter Keren-Happuch.

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Cross References

Job 1:2He had seven sons and three daughters.

Psalms 127:3Children are a gift that comes to parents from Yahweh; they are a reward/blessing from him.

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 →

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