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King James Version

Job 42:15

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Inheritance;   Job;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Beauty;   Beauty-Disfigurement;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Parents;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Inheritance;   Job;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blessedness;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heir;   Job, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Inheritance;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Now in all the land no women were found so beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In al the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.
Darby Translation
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.
New King James Version
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.
Literal Translation
And in all the land there were not found women as beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
Easy-to-Read Version
Job's daughters were among the most beautiful women in all the country. And, like their brothers, they each got a share of their father's property.
World English Bible
In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
King James Version (1611)
And in all the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritance among their brethren.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In all the londe were none founde so fayre, as the doughters of Iob, & their father gaue them enheritaunce amonge their brethren.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.
Update Bible Version
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New English Translation
Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.
Contemporary English Version
They were the most beautiful women in that part of the world, and Job gave them shares of his property, along with their brothers.
Complete Jewish Bible
Nowhere in the land could women be found as beautiful as Iyov's daughters; and their father gave them inheritances along with their brothers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In all the lande were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob, & their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.
George Lamsa Translation
And in all the land were found no women as beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
Amplified Bible
In all the land there were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
Hebrew Names Version
In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Iyov. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
New Living Translation
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.
New Life Bible
No women were found in all the land who were as beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them a share among their brothers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer women than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
New Revised Standard
In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land, - and their father gave them an inheritance, in the midst of their brethren.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
Lexham English Bible
And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job's daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers.
English Standard Version
And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
New American Standard Bible
In all the land no women were found as beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritances among their brothers.
New Century Version
There were no other women in all the land as beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father Job gave them land to own along with their brothers.
Good News Translation
There were no other women in the whole world as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them a share of the inheritance along with their brothers.
Christian Standard Bible®
No women as beautiful as Job's daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`Sotheli no wymmen weren foundun so faire in al erthe, as the douytris of Joob; and her fadir yaf eritage to hem among her britheren.
Young's Literal Translation
And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.
Revised Standard Version
And in all the land there were no women so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

Contextual Overview

10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. 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. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. 15 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. 16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

no: Psalms 144:12, Acts 7:20

gave: Numbers 27:7, Joshua 15:18, Joshua 15:19, Joshua 18:4

Reciprocal: Numbers 36:2 - to give

Cross-References

Genesis 42:7
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Genesis 42:12
And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Genesis 42:16
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
Genesis 42:20
But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Genesis 42:30
The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
Genesis 42:33
And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
Genesis 42:34
And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
Genesis 42:37
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
Genesis 43:3
And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the daughters of Job,.... Either in the whole world, which is not improbable: or it may be rather in the land or country in which they dwelt; and which may be gathered from their names, as before observed. The people of God, and children of Christ, the antitype of Job, are all fair, and there is no spot in them; a perfection of beauty, perfectly comely, through the comeliness of Christ put upon them, and are without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing;

and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren; which was done not on account of their beauty or virtue; nor is this observed so much to show the great riches of Job, that he could give his daughters as much as his sons, as his impartiality to his children, and his strict justice and equity in distributing his substance to them all alike, making no difference between male and female. And so in Christ, the antitype of Job, there is neither male nor female, no difference between them, Galatians 3:28: but being all children, they are heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, and equally partake of the same inheritance with the saints in light, Romans 8:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And their father gave them inheritance among their brethren - This is mentioned as a proof of his special regard, and is also recorded because it was not common. Among the Hebrews the daughter inherited only in the case where there was no son, Numbers 27:8. The property was divided equally among the sons, with the exception that the oldest received a double portion; see Jahn’s “Bib. Arch.” section 168. This custom, prevailing still extensively in the East, it seems existed in the time of Job, and it is mentioned as a remarkable circumstance that he made his daughters heirs to his property with their brothers. It would also be rather implied in the passage before us that they were equal heirs.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 42:15. Gave them inheritance among their brethren. — This seems to refer to the history of the daughters of Zelophehad, given Numbers 27:1-8, who appear to have been the first who were allowed an inheritance among their brethren.


 
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