Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money,† and everyone a ring of gold.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 42:11 in context
Job 42:8–14
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Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
9
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job.
10
The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money,† and everyone a ring of gold.
12
So the LORD 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.
13
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
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He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
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- literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver
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