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Job 42 Summary
Job Repents and Is Restored to Blessing
Job acknowledges God's almighty power and confesses that he spoke of matters beyond his understanding and knowledge. The LORD rebukes Job's three friends for speaking wrongly of Him, commanding them to offer burnt offerings while Job intercedes for them in prayer. After Job prays for his friends, the LORD restores his captivity and doubles his former possessions—fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen. His family returns to comfort him, bringing gifts, and he fathers three new daughters of great beauty. Job lives another one hundred and forty years, witnessing four generations, and dies old and full of days.
Key themes
Key verses
Job 42:2
“I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.”
Job 42:5-6
“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”
Job 42:10
“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.”
Job 42:12
“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.”
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