So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
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- WEB So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
- KJV So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
- NKJV Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
- NASB The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
- NLT So the Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
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Quick answer
The LORD blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning, multiplying his flocks and herds. God's final word over Job's life is abundant blessing.
Overview
God grants Job vast wealth in livestock, doubling his earlier holdings, as a visible sign of restored favor. This blessing is not a reward earned by bargaining but a gift of God's free grace after Job's testing. It offers a foretaste of the truth that present sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory God prepares for His own (Romans 8:18).
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- Job 8:7Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
- Eccl 7:8The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.
- Prov 10:22The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
- Gen 24:35“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
- Ps 144:13–15Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
- 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.
- Gen 26:12–14Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
- Deut 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- Ps 107:38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
- 1 Tim 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
- Jas 5:11See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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