Job 42:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²So 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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 8:7
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Psalms 144:13-15
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: …
Genesis 24:35
And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 wa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Probably by degrees, not all at once.