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Job 42:13 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" He had also seven sons and three daughters. "
Job 42:13
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Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
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.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
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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"
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"
Job 42:4
"Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare"
Job 42:5
"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth"
Job 42:6
"Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
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