Job 42:13
in Job 42And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
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This verse in Job 42
Commentary
10 notes on this verseAnd he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses; and he had seven sons, and three daughters. 36. That he had had seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, before the trial of his scourging, the preface of this same history points out to us. Those things which were lost through his scourging, were now restored twofold. But as many children were restored as he had lost. For he had seven sons and three daughters.
This site's exposition
So the LORD blessed
on Job 42:12-13
Each figure, “14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys”, doubles chapter 1. The “seven sons and three daughters” match the first family's number. Henry and Wesley read the children as doubled too, the first ten alive to God though dead to Job.
This site's exposition
seven sons and three daughters
Seven sons and three daughters is the same number as before. Clarke notes that the Chaldee doubles the sons to fourteen, where the Vulgate and Septuagint keep seven. Barnes observes that the text says nothing of Job's wife or of a second marriage.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"He also had," the text says, "seven sons and three daughters." Later he gives them names that seem to be inspired by the circumstances. He calls them "Day, Cinnamon and Amalthea's horn."
The Medieval Church1 voice
Now Job had lost not only his possessions, but also his children who are restored to him, but not double what he had before, for the text says, "He had seven sons and three daughters." There can be two reasons for this. One pertains to …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The last of his afflictions that are recorded ( ch. i. ), and the most grievous, was the death of all his children at once. His friends upbraided him with it ( ch. viii.
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He had also seven sons, and three daughters.
Here he goes on with words to the same purport. Though his patience had not its perfect work, his repentance for his impatience had. He is here thoroughly humbled for his folly and unadvised speaking, and it was forgiven him.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
He had also seven sons and three daughters - The same number which he had before his trials. Nothing is said of his wife, or whether these children were, or were not, by a second marriage.
Seven sons and three daughters - This was the same number as before; and so the Vulgate, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read: but the Chaldee doubles the sons, “And he had fourteen sons, and three daughters.”
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And he named the first Jemimah They were named according to their beauty.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַֽיְהִי־ | vayhi- | and it belonged | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| ל֛וֹ | lo | to him | ||
| שִׁבְעָ֥נָה | shivanah | seven | H7658 → | |
| בָנִ֖ים | vanim | sons | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| וְשָׁל֥וֹשׁ | veshaloosh | and three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| בָּנֽוֹת׃ | banot | daughters | H1323 → | 588 times |
וַֽיְהִי־and it belonged
vayhi-H1961 →3559 times
ל֛וֹto him
lo
שִׁבְעָ֥נָהseven
shivanahH7658 →
בָנִ֖יםsons
vanimH1121 →4930 times
וְשָׁל֥וֹשׁand three
veshalooshH7969 →432 times
בָּנֽוֹת׃daughters
banotH1323 →588 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 127:3Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
it leads to
- Psalms 128:3–4
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- Deuteronomy 28:4
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- 1 Samuel 1:27
I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
- Genesis 48:4
and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
- Isaiah 8:18
Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
- Psalms 128:3–4
Through
Psalms 107:41But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 2:8
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth…
- Job 21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- 1 Samuel 2:8
Through
Job 1:2He had seven sons and three daughters,
it leads to
- Psalms 127:3–5
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
- Psalms 127:3–5
Where this verse is studied
About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXV; John Chrysostom, COMMENTARY ON JOB 42:13; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.