Job 42:7-17

Epilogue

7 After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.

11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver^[a] and a gold ring.

12 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

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

15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.

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Job 42:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 42

This chapter contains Job's answer to the last speech of the Lord's, in which he acknowledges his omnipotence, and his certain performance of his purposes and pleasure; owns his own folly and ignorance, and confesses his sins; for which he abhorred himself, and of which he repented, Job 42:1-6; it also gives an account of the Lord's decision of the controversy between Job and his friends, blaming them and commending him above them; and ordered them to take sacrifices and go to Job and offer them, who should pray for them and be accepted, which was done, Job 42:7-9; and it closes with a relation of the great prosperity Job was restored unto, in which he lived and died, Job 42:10-17.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. S Joshua 1:7
2. Job 32:3
3. ver 8; S Job 9:15
4. Numbers 23:1,29; Ezekiel 45:23
5. Job 1:8
6. S Genesis 8:20; Job 1:5
7. Genesis 20:17; James 5:15-16; 1 John 5:16
8. Genesis 20:7; Job 22:30
9. S ver 7
10. Job 2:11
11. S Genesis 19:21; S Genesis 20:17; Ezekiel 14:14
12. Deuteronomy 30:3; Psalms 14:7
13. S Job 1:3; Psalms 85:1-3; Psalms 126:5-6; Philippians 2:8-9; James 5:11
14. S Job 19:13
15. S Genesis 37:35
16. S Genesis 15:15; Genesis 25:8

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew "him a kesitah" ; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.