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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.
Job 42:10 · New 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.
  • 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.
  • BSB After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
  • 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 Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
  • Job 8:6–7If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
  • Isa 40:2“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
  • Prov 22:4The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
  • Isa 61:7Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land, they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them.
  • Ps 14:7Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
  • Ps 126:1A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
  • Job 1:3His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
  • Acts 7:50Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
  • Hag 2:8The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Num 12:13Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”
  • Num 12:2They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.
  • Deut 9:20Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
  • Acts 7:60He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
  • Num 16:21–22“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
  • 2 Chr 25:9Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”
  • Job 5:18–20For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
  • Deut 8:18But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
  • 1 Sam 2:7Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
  • Num 14:1–4All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
  • Luke 16:27“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house;
  • Gen 20:17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
  • Job 22:24–25Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
  • Num 14:10But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
  • Num 14:13–20Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
  • Exod 17:4–5Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
  • Num 16:46–48Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
  • Ps 126:4–6Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.
  • Ps 53:6Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
  • Ps 85:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes 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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