Job 42:10

Prayer Forgiving others New life and rebirth Money and wealth

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 folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

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 gold.

¹² So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

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
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
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Job 8:6–7
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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Proverbs 22:4
By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
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Isaiah 40:2
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
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Isaiah 61:7
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
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Psalms 14:7
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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Psalms 126:1
When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
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Acts 7:50
Hath not my hand made all these things?
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