Job 42:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

So

General references

Genesis 1:22

Psalm 37:37

Proverbs 2:21

Bible References

So

“Though your beginning was insignificant,
Yet your end will increase greatly.

In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end.

It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich,
And He adds no sorrow to it.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning;

Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.

Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

General references

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Mark the

blameless man, and behold the upright;

For the man of peace will have a

posterity.

For the upright will live in the land
And the blameless will remain in it;