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Job 42:15
No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes Job’s restored family after his trials, noting the naming of his three daughters and the subsequent blessing. This statement occurs at the conclusion of the poetic dialogue and divine speeches, marking the narrative’s resolution.
The words — The Hebrew phrase נִמְצָא (nim.Tza'), meaning "it was found," and יָפ֛וֹת (ya.Fot), meaning "beautiful," establish a superlative comparison. The text literally states that no women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land.
The thread — The grant of inheritance to daughters echoes the legal precedent in Numbers 27:7 regarding the daughters of Zelophehad. It also resonates with the ideal of daughters as honored figures described in Psalms 144:12.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition that divine restoration includes economic and social equity for women. It requires the reader to acknowledge inheritance rights as a concrete marker of restored favor rather than a mere cultural detail.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
Cross-references
- Numbers 27:7 “The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
- Psalms 144:12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- Joshua 18:4 Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me
- Acts 7:20 At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
- Joshua 15:18 One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”