Job 42:7-16 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 42:7-9

Job, in his discourses, had complained very much of the censures of his friends and their hard usage of him, and had appealed to God as Judge between him and them, and thought it hard that judgment was not immediately given upon the appeal. While God was catechising Job out of the whirlwind one would have thought that he only was in the wrong, and that the cause would certainly go against him; but here, to our great surprise, we find it quite otherwise, and the definitive sentence given in... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 42:10-17

You have heard of the patience of Job (says the apostle, Jas. 5:11) and have seen the end of the Lord, that is, what end the Lord, at length, put to his troubles. In the beginning of this book we had Job's patience under his troubles, for an example; here, in the close, for our encouragement to follow that example, we have the happy issue of his troubles and the prosperous condition to which he was restored after them, which confirms us in counting those happy which endure. Perhaps, too, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:7

And it was so ,.... What follows came to pass: that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job ; which he spake to him out of the whirlwind, and after he had heard Job's confession, and the declaration he made of his humiliation and repentance: the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite ; who with his two friends were still present and heard the speeches of the Lord to Job, and the acknowledgment he had made of sin; though some F15 Vid. Spanhem. Hist. Jobi, c. 8. s. 1,2. think... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:8

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks, and seven rams ,.... Creatures used in sacrifice before the giving of the Levitical law, Genesis 4:4 ; and the same number of the same creatures were offered by Balaam in the country of Moab, not far from where Job lived, nor at any great distance of time from his age, Numbers 23:1 ; and among the Gentiles in later times F17 "----Septem mactare juvencos", &c.; Virgil. Aeneid. 6. v. 38, 39. . And these were typical of Christ, being... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:9

So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went ,.... Having taken the above creatures for sacrifice, as directed, they went to Job with them; and did according as the Lord commanded them ; offered them by Job for a burnt offering, and desired him to pray for them. This they did, both as to matter and manner, as the Lord ordered them; and they did it immediately, without consulting flesh and blood, the pride and other passions of their hearts; and they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:10

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job ,.... Not literally, in such sense as Lot's captivity was turned, Genesis 14:12 ; for Job's person was not seized on and carried away, though his cattle were: nor spiritually, being delivered from the captivity of sin; that had been his case many years ago, when first converted: but it is to be understood of his restoration from afflictions and calamities to a happy state; as of the return of his substance, his health and friends, and especially of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:11

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters ,.... Which may be taken not in a strict sense, but in a larger sense for all that were related to him; the same with his kinsfolks, Job 19:14 ; and all they that had been of his acquaintance before ; that knew him, visited him, conversed with him, and kept up a friendly correspondence with him; the circle of his acquaintance must have been large, for wealth makes many friends: now these had been shy of him, and kept at a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:12

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning ,.... Which verified the words of Bildad, Job 8:6 ; though they were spoken by him only by way of supposition. All blessings are of the Lord, temporal and spiritual; and sometimes the last days of a good man are his best, as to temporal things, as were David's, and here Job's; though this is not always the case: however, if their last days are but the best in spiritual things, that is enough: if they have more faith, hope,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:13

He had also seven sons, and three daughters. The same number of children, and of the same sort he had before, Job 1:2 ; and according to Nachman the very same he had before, which the additional letter in the word "seven" is with him the notification of; so that the doubting of what he had before, Job 42:10 ; respects only his substance, and particularly his cattle; though the Targum says he had fourteen sons, and so Jarchi F20 Vid. Balmes. Gram. Strat. 26. ; others think these may... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:14

And he called the name of the first Jemima ,.... That is, the name of the first and eldest daughter was called by Job Jemima; which either signifies "day", so the Targum interprets it, and most do, and so is the same with Diana; or, as Spanheim F21 Hist. Jobi, c. 12. s. 7. observes, it may be the same with the Arabic word "jemama", which signifies a turtle or dove F23 Golii Lexic. Arab. col. 2767, 2768. ; and who also observes that a country in Arabia is so called, and perhaps... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 42:7-9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 42:10-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 42:14

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