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.
You have heard of the patience of Job (says the apostle, Jam 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...
Commenting on Job 42:10-17
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...
God rebuked the three friends because they spoke falsely to justify their unkindness, using wrong arguments to defend themselves. Job had denied their theory that calamity always proves peculiar guilt, and he was right about them, though he fell into his own extreme by almost denying all guilt, which he has now repented of.
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Commenting on Job 42:7-17