13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
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And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
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 w…
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