Job 42:10

Prayer Forgiving others New life and rebirth Money and wealth

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

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s request.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

¹¹ All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

¹² So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
KJV: 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.
WEB: The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
ASV: And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.
DARBY: And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.
BLB: And YHWH turned back the captivity of Job, in his praying for his friends; and YHWH added [to] all that [was] unto Job—to double.

ÅB: Og Herren gjorde ende på Jobs ulykke, da han ba for sine venner; og Herren øket alt det Job hadde hatt, til det dobbelte.
OTB: Herren gjenopprettet Jobs velstand da han ba for sine venner, og Herren ga ham dobbelt så mye som han hadde før.
B1930: Og Herren gjorde ende på Jobs ulykke, da han bad for sine venner; og Herren øket alt det Job hadde hatt, til det dobbelte.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Deuteronomy 30:3
then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
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Job 8:6–7
if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
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Proverbs 22:4
The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
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Isaiah 40:2
“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
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Isaiah 61:7
Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
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Psalms 14:7
Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
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Psalms 126:1
When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
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Acts 7:50
Has not My hand made all these things?’
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