Job 42:10
The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dominus quoque conversus est ad pœnitentiam Job, cum oraret ille pro amicis suis : et addidit Dominus omnia quæcumque fuerant Job, duplicia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ δὲ κύριος ηὔξησεν τὸν Ἰώβ· εὐξαμένου δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ περὶ τῶν φίλων ἀφῆκεν αὐτοῖς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν· ἔδωκεν δὲ ὁ κύριος διπλᾶ ὅσα ἦν ἔμπροσθεν Ἰὼβ εἰς διπλασιασμόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַֽיהוָ֗ה שָׁ֚ב אֶת שבית אִיּ֔וֹב בְּהִֽתְפַּֽלְל֖וֹ בְּעַ֣ד רֵעֵ֑הוּ וַ֧יֹּסֶף יְהוָ֛ה אֶת כָּל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְאִיּ֖וֹב לְמִשְׁנֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Penance. Hebrew, "return." He resolved to restore him to his former prosperous condition, while he prayed for those who had so cruelly exercised his patience. (Calmet)
Protestants and Vatable, "the Lord turned the captivity of Job:" so any great distress may be styled, though Job was in a manner abandoned to the power and bondage of satan. Septuagint, "But the Lord gave an increase to Job, and while he was praying for his friends, He forgave them their sin. And," &c. (Haydock)
Twice, excepting children, who were living (Worthington) with God. (Rabbins) (St. Gregory, &c.)
Some also include the years of Job's life, but that is not clear, (see Spanheim, c. 7.; Calmet) though not improbable; as he might very well live twice as long as he had done, if we suppose that he was about (Haydock) 50 when he was so much distressed (Petau); and thus arrived at the age of 140, ver. 16. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose Concerning Repentance, Chapter I. St. Ambrose gives additional rules concerning repentance, and shows that it must not be delayed
4. And the Apostle teaches us how to dung it, saying: “I count all things but dung, that I may gain Christ,” and he, through evil report and good report, attained to pleasing Christ. For he had read that Abraham, when confessing himself to be but dust and ashes, in his deep humility found favour with God. He had read how Job, sitting among the ashes, regained all that he had lost. He had heard in the utterance of David, how God “raiseth the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill.”