Job 42:10

The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job.

11Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:4Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

Numbers 12:13Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”

Numbers 14:10But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The LORD’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.

Numbers 16:21“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

Deuteronomy 8:18But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 30:3that then the LORD your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.

Matthew Henry on Job 42:8-10

God's Vindication of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. 8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your… Read the whole commentary →

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