Psalmi 42:12

Nova Vulgata

Dominus autem benedixit novissimis Iob magis quam principio eius; et facta sunt ei quattuordecim milia ovium et sex milia camelorum et mille iuga boum et mille asinae.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Dominus autem benedixit novissimis Job magis quam principio ejus : et facta sunt ei quatuordecim millia ovium, et sex millia camelorum, et mille juga boum, et mille asin�.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Dominus autem benedixit novissimis Job magis quam principio ejus: et facta sunt ei quatuordecim millia ovium, et sex millia camelorum, et mille juga boum, et mille asin�.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

So: Job 8:7, Deuteronomy 8:16, Proverbs 10:22, Ecclesiastes 7:8, 1 Timothy 6:17, James 5:11

he had: Job 1:3, Genesis 24:35, Genesis 26:12-14, Psalms 107:38, Psalms 144:13-15

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:22 - General Genesis 1:28 - General Genesis 12:16 - he had Genesis 26:14 - had possession Genesis 32:14 - General Deuteronomy 7:13 - he will also Deuteronomy 24:19 - may bless 1 Samuel 25:2 - three thousand 2 Kings 3:4 - a sheepmaster 2 Chronicles 17:5 - he had riches 2 Chronicles 32:29 - possessions Job 1:10 - thou hast blessed Job 36:7 - with Job 36:11 - spend Psalms 34:19 - Many Psalms 37:37 - General Psalms 127:5 - Happy Proverbs 2:21 - General Ecclesiastes 2:7 - also

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning,.... Which verified the words of Bildad, Job 8:6; though they were spoken by him only by way of supposition. All blessings are of the Lord, temporal and spiritual; and sometimes the last days of a good man are his best, as to temporal things, as were David's, and here Job's; though this is not always the case: however, if their last days are but the best in spiritual things, that is enough: if they have more faith, hope, love, patience, humility, and self-denial, and resignation of will to the will of God; are more holy, humble, spiritually and heavenly minded; have more light and knowledge in divine things; have more peace and joy, and are more fruitful in every good work, and more useful; and often they are in their very last moments most cheerful and comfortable: the best wine is reserved till last;

for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses: just double the number of each of what he had before, Job 1:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job - To wit, by giving him double what he had possessed before his calamities came upon him; see Job 42:10.

For he had fourteen thousand sheep ... - The possessions which are here enumerated are in each instance just twice as much as he possessed in the early part of his life. In regard to their value, and the rank in society which they indicated, see the notes at Job 1:3. The only thing which is omitted here, and which it is not said was doubled, was his “household,” or “husbandry” (Job 1:3, “margin”), but it is evident that this must have been increased in a corresponding manner to have enabled him to keep and maintain such flocks and herds. We are not to suppose that these were granted to him at once, but as he lived an hundred and forty years after his afflictions, he had ample time to accumulate this property.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 42:12. The Lord blessed the latter end of Job — Was it not in consequence of his friends bringing him a lamb, sheep, or other kind of cattle, and the quantity of gold mentioned, that his stock of sheep was increased so speedily to 14,000, his camels to 6000, his oxen to 2000, and his she-asses to 1000?

Mr. Heath takes the story of the conduct of Job's friends by the worst handle; see Job 42:11. Is it not likely that they themselves were the cause of his sudden accumulation of property? and that they did not visit him, nor seek his familiarity because he was now prosperous; but because they saw that God had turned his captivity, and miraculously healed him? This gave them full proof of his innocence, and they no longer considered him an anathema, or devoted person, whom they should avoid and detest, but one who had been suffering under a strange dispensation of Divine Providence, and who was now no longer a suspicious character, but a favourite of heaven, to whom they should show every possible kindness. They therefore joined hands with God to make the poor man live and their presents were the cause, under God of his restoration to affluence. This takes the subject by the other handle; and I think, as far as the text is concerned, by the right one.

He had fourteen thousand sheep — The reader, by referring to Job 1:3, will perceive that the whole of Job's property was exactly doubled.