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Job 42:12 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
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.
Job 42:12
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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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Jemimah Job is the father of Jemimah.
Source: Job 42:12; Job 42:13; Job 42:14
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.
Read Job 42:12He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Read Job 42:13And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
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Keziah Job is the father of Keziah.
Source: Job 42:12; Job 42:13; Job 42:14
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.
Read Job 42:12He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Read Job 42:13And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
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Keren-happuch Job is the father of Keren-happuch.
Source: Job 42:12; Job 42:13; Job 42:14
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.
Read Job 42:12He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Read Job 42:13And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
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Eliphaz the Temanite Eliphaz the Temanite is a friend of Job.
Source: Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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Bildad Bildad is a friend of Job.
Source: Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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Zophar Zophar is a friend of Job.
Source: Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
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Selected relationship data adapted from BibleData, Brady Stephenson (CC BY 4.0). Reviewed, translated and supplemented with Scripture references.
From This Chapter
Job 42:1
"Then Job answered the LORD, and said,"
Job 42:2
"I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee."
Job 42:3
"Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not."
Job 42:4
"Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me."
Job 42:5
"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee."
Job 42:6
"Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
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