After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- NASB The Lord also restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased double all that Job had.
- NLT When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before!
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Quick answer
When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as before. His restoration follows his act of forgiveness.
Overview
God reverses Job's captivity precisely as he intercedes for those who had wounded him, then doubles his former wealth. The timing highlights that blessing flowed alongside Job's forgiveness, showing the heart of a restored man. While the doubling displays God's abundant grace, the book never reduces faith to a formula for prosperity, for Job's deepest gain was seeing God.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 30:3then 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.
- Job 8:6–7if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
- Isa 40:2“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.”
- Prov 22:4The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
- Isa 61:7Instead 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.
- Ps 14:7Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
- Ps 126:1A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
- Job 1:3and 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.
- Acts 7:50Has not My hand made all these things?’
- Hag 2:8The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Num 12:13So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
- Num 12:2“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.
- Deut 9:20The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
- Acts 7:60Falling 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.
- Num 16:21–22“Separate yourselves from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”
- 2 Chr 25:9Amaziah asked the man of God, “What should I do about the hundred talents I have given to the army of Israel?” And the man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”
- Job 5:18–20For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Deut 8:18But 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 Sam 2:7The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- Num 14:1–4Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
- Luke 16:27‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,
- Gen 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
- Job 22:24–25and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- Num 14:10But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.
- Num 14:13–20But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
- Exod 17:4–5Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
- Num 16:46–48Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- Ps 126:4–6Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.
- Ps 53:6Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
- Ps 85:1–3For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.
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