Job 42:12
So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
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- Job 8:7 : 7 Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.
- Job 1:3 : 3 His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.
- Jas 5:11 : 11 Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
- Gen 24:35 : 35 “The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Gen 26:12-14 : 12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him. 13 The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent. 14 He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
- Ps 107:38 : 38 He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
- Ps 144:13-15 : 13 Our storehouses will be full, providing all kinds of food. Our sheep will multiply by the thousands and fill our pastures. 14 Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares. 15 How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!
- Prov 10:22 : 22 The blessing from the LORD makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.
- Eccl 7:8 : 8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning; likewise, patience is better than pride.
- 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Command those who are rich in this world’s goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.
- Deut 8:16 : 16 fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
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- Job 42:13-175 verses79%
13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.
15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.
16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17 And so Job died, old and full of days.
- Job 42:7-115 verses76%
7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.
8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
9 So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the LORD had told them; and the LORD had respect for Job.
10 So the LORD restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the LORD doubled all that had belonged to Job.
11 So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
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43 In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
- Job 1:2-32 verses73%
2 Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
3 His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.
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44 36,000 cattle,
45 30,500 donkeys,
46 and 16,000 people.
- Job 1:13-142 verses72%
13 Job’s Integrity in Adversity Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
14 and a messenger came to Job, saying,“The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,
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35 “The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
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14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
- Num 31:32-343 verses71%
32 The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,
33 72,000 cattle,
34 61,000 donkeys,
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10 Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
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38 He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
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4 Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
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2 The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.
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1 IV. Job’s Concluding Soliloquy(29:1-31:40)Job Recalls His Former Condition Then Job continued his speech:
- Num 31:37-393 verses68%
37 the LORD’s tribute from the sheep was 675.
38 The cattle numbered 36,000; the LORD’s tribute was 72.
39 The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD’s tribute was 61.
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1 Job’s Reply to God’s Challenge Then the LORD answered Job:
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16 and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
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14 He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
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12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.
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11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat tribute, including a load of silver. The Arabs brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats from their flocks.
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1 Job’s Confession Then Job answered the LORD:
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30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”
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1 A Protest of Innocence And Job took up his discourse again:
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23 ten calves fattened in the stall, twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.
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20 you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.
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29 He built royal cities and owned a large number of sheep and cattle, for God gave him a huge amount of possessions.
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13 when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,