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.
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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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
- Eccl 7:8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
- Prov 10:22The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
- Gen 24:35And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
- Ps 144:13–15That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
- 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.
- Gen 26:12–14Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
- Deut 8:16Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
- Ps 107:38He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
- 1 Tim 6:17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
- Jas 5:11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
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