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8 Now therefore, take for yourselves aseven bulls and seven rams, bgo to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall cpray for you. For I will accept1 him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”  
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them; for the Lord had1 accepted Job.  
10 aAnd the Lord1 restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job btwice as much as he had before.  
11 Then aall his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.  
12 Now the Lord blessed athe latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had bfourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.  
13 aHe also had seven sons and three daughters.  
14 And he called the name of the first1 Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch.  
15 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.
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Adam Clarke
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Job 42:10

The Lord turned the captivity of Job - The Vulgate has: Dominus quoque conversus est AD poenitentiam Job ; "And the Lord turned Job to repentance." The Chaldee: "The Word of the Lord ( meymera dayai ) turned the captivity of Job." There is a remark which these words suggest, which has been rarely, if at all, noticed. It is said that the Lord turned the captivity of Job When He Prayed for His Friends. He had suffered much through the unkindness of these friends; they had criticised his conduct without feeling or mercy; and he had just cause to be irritated against them: and that he had such a feeling towards them, several parts of his discourses sufficiently prove. God was now about to show Job his mercy; but mercy can be shown only to the merciful; Job must forgive his unfeeling friends, if he would be forgiven by the Lord; he directs him, therefore, to pray for them, Job 42:8. He who can pray for another cannot entertain enmity against him: Job did so, and when he prayed for his friends, God turned the captivity of Job. "Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven." Some suppose that Job, being miraculously restored, armed his servants and remaining friends, and fell upon those who had spoiled him; and not only recovered his own property, but also spoiled the spoilers, and thus his substance became double what it was before. Of this I do not see any intimation in the sacred text.




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