Job 42 · Verse 13

Job 42:13

He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Job 42:13, King James Version

Job 42:13 in other translations

BSBAnd he also had seven sons and three daughters.
WEBHe had also seven sons and three daughters.
ASVHe had also seven sons and three daughters.
YLTAnd he hath seven sons and three daughters;
DARBYAnd he had seven sons and three daughters.
BBEAnd he had seven sons and three daughters.
WebsterHe had also seven sons, and three daughters.

What does Job 42:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. The same number as before, Job 1:2; perhaps by a second wife; in Job 19:17 his wife is last mentioned.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 Seven sons and three daughters - This was the same number as before; and so the Vulgate, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read: but the Chaldee doubles the sons, "And he had fourteen sons, and three daughters."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 42:10-17

In the beginning of this book we had Job's patience under his troubles, for an example; here, for our encouragement to follow that example, we have his happy end. His troubles began in Satan's malice, which God restrained; his restoration began in God's mercy, which Satan could not oppose. Mercy did not return when Job was disputing with his friends, but when he was praying for them. God is served and pleased with…

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Job 42:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַֽיְהִי\־vay.hi-and it belongedH1961
ל֛וֹloto him
שִׁבְעָ֥נָהshiv.'A.nahsevenH7658
בָנִ֖יםva.NimsonsH1121
וְשָׁל֥וֹשׁve.sha.Lo.oshand threeH7969
בָּנֽוֹת\׃ba.NotdaughtersH1323

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 42:13

  • Job 1:2

    And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

  • Psalms 127:3

    Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

  • Psalms 107:41

    Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

  • Isaiah 49:20

    The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1:2; Ps 107:41; 127:3; Isa 49:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 42:12

    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.

  • Job 42:13

    He had also seven sons and three daughters.

  • Job 42:14

    And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.

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Job 42:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y tuvo siete hijos y tres hijas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et il eut sept fils et trois filles;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und es wurden ihm sieben Söhne und drei Töchter geboren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et fuerunt ei septem filii, et tres filiæ.