Job 42

10. turned . . . captivity--proverbial for restored, or amply indemnified him for all he had lost ( Ezekiel 16:53 , Psalms 14:7 , Hosea 6:11 ). Thus the future vindication of man, body and soul, against Satan ( Job 1:9-12 ), at the resurrection ( Job 19:25-27 ), has its earnest and adumbration in the temporal vindication of Job at last by Jehovah in person.
twice--so to the afflicted literal and spiritual Jerusalem ( Isaiah 40:2 , 60:7 , 61:7 , Zechariah 9:12 ). As in Job's case, so in that of Jesus Christ, the glorious recompense follows the "intercession" for enemies ( Isaiah 53:12 ).

11. It was Job's complaint in his misery that his "brethren," were "estranged" from him ( Job 19:13 ); these now return with the return of his prosperity ( Proverbs 14:20 , Proverbs 19:6 Proverbs 19:7 ); the true friend loveth at all times ( Proverbs 17:17 , 18:24 ). "Swallow friends leave in the winter and return with the spring" [HENRY].
eat bread--in token of friendship ( Psalms 41:9 ).
piece of money--Presents are usual in visiting a man of rank in the East, especially after a calamity ( 2 Chronicles 32:23 ). Hebrew, kesita. MAGEE translates "a lamb" (the medium of exchange then before money was used), as it is in Margin of Genesis 33:19 , Joshua 24:32 . But it is from the Arabic kasat, "weighed out" [UMBREIT], not coined; so Genesis 42:35 , 33:19 ; compare with Genesis 23:15 , makes it likely it was equal to four shekels; Hebrew kashat, "pure," namely, metal. The term, instead of the usual "shekel," &c., is a mark of antiquity.
earring--whether for the nose or ear ( Genesis 35:4 , Isaiah 3:21 ). Much of the gold in the East, in the absence of banks, is in the shape of ornaments.

12. Probably by degrees, not all at once.

13. The same number as before, Job 1:2 ; perhaps by a second wife; in Job 19:17 his wife is last mentioned.

14. Names significant of his restored prosperity ( Genesis 4:25 , 5:29 ).
Jemima--"daylight," after his "night" of calamity; but MAURER, "a dove."
Kezia--"cassia," an aromatic herb ( Psalms 45:8 ), instead of his offensive breath and ulcers.
Keren-happuch--"horn of stibium," a paint with which females dyed their eyelids; in contrast to his "horn defiled in the dust" ( Job 16:15 ). The names also imply the beauty of his daughters.

15. inheritance among . . . brethren--An unusual favor in the East to daughters, who, in the Jewish law, only inherited, if there were no sons ( Numbers 27:8 ), a proof of wealth and unanimity.

16. The Septuagint makes Job live a hundred seventy years after his calamity, and two hundred forty in all. This would make him seventy at the time of his calamity, which added to a hundred forty in Hebrew text makes up two hundred ten; a little more than the age (two hundred five) of Terah, father of Abraham, perhaps his contemporary. Man's length of life gradually shortened, fill it reached threescore and ten in Moses' time ( Psalms 90:10 ).
sons' sons--a proof of divine favor ( Genesis 50:23 , Psalms 128:6 , Proverbs 17:6 ).

17. full of days--fully sated and contented with all the happiness that life could give him; realizing what Eliphaz had painted as the lot of the godly ( Job 5:26 , Psalms 91:16 , Genesis 25:8 , 35:29 ). The Septuagint adds, "It is written, that he will rise again with those whom the Lord will raise up." Compare Matthew 27:52 Matthew 27:53 , from which it perhaps was derived spuriously.