No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
Parallel translations
- WEB In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
- KJV And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
- NKJV In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
- NASB In all the land no women were found as beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritances among their brothers.
- NLT In all the land no women were as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers.
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Quick answer
Job's daughters were the most beautiful in the land, and he gave them an inheritance alongside their brothers. This generous, unusual provision marks his blessing.
Overview
Job grants his daughters an inheritance among their brothers, a striking act of generosity beyond the era's common custom. Together with their unmatched beauty, this signals the fullness and graciousness of God's restoration of Job's house. It quietly testifies to a heart shaped by God's own generous favor toward His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Num 27:7“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
- Ps 144:12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- Josh 18:4Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me
- Acts 7:20At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
- Josh 15:18–19One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”
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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.
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