Job 42:10 “After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity…”

Job 42:10

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

World English Bible

The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

American Standard Version

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the Lord turned the captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gaue Iob twise so much as he had before.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Young's Literal Translation

And Jehovah hath turned [to] the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add [to] all that Job hath — to double.

Bible in Basic English

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

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Cross references

“turned”

Deuteronomy 30:3 Psalm 14:7 Psalm 126:1 Job 5:18–20 Psalm 53:6 Psalm 126:4

Deuteronomy 30:3 · BSB

then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

Psalm 14:7 · BSB

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!

Psalm 126:1 · BSB

When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.

Job 5:18–20 · BSB

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

Psalm 53:6 · BSB

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!

Psalm 126:4 · BSB

Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.

“when”

Acts 7:50 Numbers 12:2 Numbers 12:13 Deuteronomy 9:20 Acts 7:60 Genesis 20:17

Acts 7:50 · BSB

Has not My hand made all these things?’

Numbers 12:2 · BSB

“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.

Numbers 12:13 · BSB

So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”

Deuteronomy 9:20 · BSB

The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

Acts 7:60 · BSB

Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Genesis 20:17 · BSB

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—

“the Lord”

Proverbs 22:4 Haggai 2:8 2 Chronicles 25:9 Deuteronomy 8:18 1 Samuel 2:7 Job 8:6

Proverbs 22:4 · BSB

The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

Haggai 2:8 · BSB

The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.

2 Chronicles 25:9 · BSB

Amaziah asked the man of God, “What should I do about the hundred talents I have given to the troops of Israel?” And the man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”

Deuteronomy 8:18 · BSB

But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

1 Samuel 2:7 · BSB

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

Job 8:6 · BSB

if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

“gave Job twice as much as he had before”

Isaiah 40:2 Isaiah 61:7

Isaiah 40:2 · BSB

“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

Isaiah 61:7 · BSB

Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

Also

Job 1:3 Psalm 85:1–3

Job 1:3 · BSB

and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

Psalm 85:1–3 · BSB

You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.

11All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

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