Job 42:12 (LSB)

Passage

And Yahweh blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 pairs of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

Nearby Context

Job 42:10 And Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and Yahweh increased all that Job had twofold.

Job 42:11 Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the calamity that Yahweh had brought on him. And each one gave him one qesitah, and each a ring of gold.

Job 42:12 And Yahweh blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 pairs of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

Job 42:13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 42:14 And he named the first Jemimah and the second Keziah and the third Keren-happuch.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sheep", "yahweh", "blessed", "latter", "days", "than", "beginning", and "camels". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sheep" and "yahweh", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "Then all his brothers and all his..." into verse 13's "He also had seven sons and three...", so "sheep" and "yahweh" belong inside that flow. In Job context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sheep" and "yahweh" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.