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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.
Job 42:10 · King James Version
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.
  • BSB After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
  • 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

Cross-references · 30

  • Deut 30:3That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
  • Job 8:6–7If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
  • Isa 40:2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
  • Prov 22:4By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
  • Isa 61:7For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
  • Ps 14:7Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
  • Ps 126:1When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
  • Job 1:3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
  • Acts 7:50Hath not my hand made all these things?
  • Hag 2:8The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Num 12:13And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
  • Num 12:2And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
  • Deut 9:20And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
  • Acts 7:60And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
  • Num 16:21–22Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
  • 2 Chr 25:9And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
  • Job 5:18–20For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
  • Deut 8:18But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
  • 1 Sam 2:7The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
  • Num 14:1–4And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
  • Luke 16:27Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
  • Gen 20:17So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
  • Job 22:24–25Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
  • Num 14:10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
  • Num 14:13–20And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
  • Exod 17:4–5And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
  • Num 16:46–48And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
  • Ps 126:4–6Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
  • Ps 53:6Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
  • Ps 85:1–3Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

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Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 42:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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