Job 42:10

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“After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.”

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BSBPD

“After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Jehovah hath turned <FI>to<Fi> the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add <FI>to<Fi> all that Job hath--to double.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 42:10 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
  2. Exodus 17:4Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
  3. Numbers 12:2“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.
  4. Numbers 12:13So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
  5. Numbers 14:1Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
  6. Numbers 14:10But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.
  7. Numbers 14:13But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
  8. Numbers 16:21“Separate yourselves from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”
  9. Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
  10. Deuteronomy 8:18But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
  11. Deuteronomy 9:20The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
  12. Deuteronomy 30:3then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
  13. 1 Samuel 2:7The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
  14. 2 Chronicles 25:9Amaziah asked the man of God, “What should I do about the hundred talents I have given to the army of Israel?” And the man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”
  15. Job 1:3and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
  16. Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
  17. Job 8:6if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
  18. Job 8:7Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
  19. Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
  20. Psalms 14:7Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
  21. Psalms 53:6Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
  22. Psalms 85:1You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.
  23. Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
  24. Psalms 126:4Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.

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