Job 42:13 Meaning and Explanation
“He had also seven sons and three daughters.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Job 42:13 Mean?
Where the livestock were doubled, the children are not, exactly. Job receives seven sons and three daughters, the same number he had lost. There is a quiet tenderness in this. Possessions can be replaced twofold, but children are not interchangeable; the ones who died are not forgotten or replaced, only joined now by new life.
Faith reads a deeper hope here. Because the dead are held in God's keeping, Job in a sense still has all twenty, ten with him and ten awaiting him. The promise of the resurrection, made full in Christ who is the firstfruits of those who sleep, assures the believer that love severed by death is not lost. New joy is given, and the old is safe with God.
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What does Job 42:13 mean?
Job is given ten children again, seven sons and three daughters.