Bible Strands
Job 42:13
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — The narrator records Job’s restored family immediately after listing his restored livestock and before naming his daughters.
The words — שִׁבְעָ֥נָה (shiv.'A.nah) = seven and בָּנֽוֹת (ba.Not) = daughters form the precise numerical pairing that mirrors his original household.
The thread — This exact count appears in Job 1:2 and echoes the psalmist’s pattern of God increasing families like flocks in Psalms 107:41 and defining children as a reward in Psalms 127:3.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that divine blessing includes tangible, measured restoration rather than abstract comfort, requiring the reader to accept family as part of God’s sovereign accounting.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Cross-references
- Job 1:2 He had seven sons and three daughters,
- Psalms 107:41 But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
- Psalms 127:3 Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
- Isaiah 49:20 Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’