Job 42:10

_AND THE LORD TURNED THE CAPTIVITY OF JOB, WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS: ALSO THE LORD GAVE JOB TWICE AS MUCH AS HE HAD BEFORE._ Turned ... captivity - proverbial for restored, or amply indemnified him for all he had lost (Ezekiel 16:53; Psalms 14:7, "When the Lord bringeth back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, etc.; Hosea 6:11). Thus the future vindication of redeemed man, body and soul, against Satan (Job 1:9), at the resurrection (Job 19:25), has its earnest and adumbration in the temporal vindication of Job at last by Yahweh in person.

10-17 In the beginning of this book we had Job's patience under his troubles, for an example; here, for our encouragement to follow that example, we have his happy end. His troubles began in Satan's malice, which God restrained; his restoration began in God's mercy, which Satan could not oppose. Mercy did not return when Job was disputing with his friends, but when he was praying for them. God is served and pleased with our warm devotions, not with our warm disputes. God doubled Job's possessions. We may lose much for the Lord, but we shall not lose any thing by him. Whether the Lord gives us health and temporal blessings or not, if we patiently suffer according to his will, in the end we shall be happy. Job's estate increased. The blessing of the Lord makes rich; it is he that gives us power to get wealth, and gives success in honest endeavours. The last days of a good man sometimes pr...

Verse Job 42:10. _THE LORD TURNED THE CAPTIVITY OF JOB_] The _Vulgate_ has: Dominus quoque conversus est ad poenitentiam Job; "And the LORD turned Job to repentance." The _Chaldee_: "The WORD of the Lord (מימרא דיי _meymera dayai_) turned the captivity of Job." There is a remark which these words suggest, which has been rarely, if at all, noticed. It is said that _the Lord turned the captivity of Job_ WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS. He had suffered much through the unkindness of these friends; they had criticised his conduct without _feeling_ or _mercy_; and he had just cause to be irritated against them: and that he had such a feeling towards _them_, several parts of his discourses sufficiently prove. God was now about to show Job his _mercy_; but _mercy_ can be shown only to the _merciful_; Job must _forgive_ his unfeeling friends, if...

AND THE LOAD TURNED THE CAPTIVITY OF JOB - Restored him to his former prosperity. The language is taken from restoration to country and home after having been a captive in a foreign land. This language is often applied in the Scriptures to the return of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon, and some writers have made use of it as an argument to show that Job lived “after” that event. But this conclusion is unwarranted. The language is so general that it might be taken from the return from “any” captivity, and is such as would naturally be employed in the early periods of the world to denote restoration from calamity. It was common in the earliest ages to convey captives in war to the land of the conqueror, and thus make a land desolate by the removal of its inhabitants; and it would be natural to use the language expressive of their return to denote a restoration from “any” great cal...

SECTION VII.—HISTORICAL SEQUEL TO THE DIALOG EXPOSITION JOB 42:1 This concluding chapter divides into two parts. In the first part (Job 42:1) Job makes his final submission, humbling himself in the dust before God. In the second (verses 7-17) the historical framework, in which the general dialogue is set, is resumed and brought to a close. God's approval of Job is declared, and his anger denounced against the three friends, who are required to expiate their guilt by a sacrifice, and only promised forgiveness if Job will intercede on their behalf (verse 8). The sacrifice takes place (verse 9); and then a brief account is appended of Job's after life—his prosp

AND THE LORD TURNED THE CAPTIVITY OF JOB,.... Not literally, in such sense as Lot's captivity was turned, Genesis 14:12; for Job's person was not seized on and carried away, though his cattle were: nor spiritually, being delivered from the captivity of sin; that had been his case many years ago, when first converted: but it is to be understood of his restoration from afflictions and calamities to a happy state; as of the return of his substance, his health and friends, and especially of his deliverance from Satan, in whose hands he had been some time, and by him distressed both in body and mind. But now his captivity was turned, and he was freed from all his distresses; and even from those which arose from the dealings of God with him, which he was now fully satisfied about; and this was done, WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS; as he was directed to do. A good man will not

VII. THE EPILOGUE: JOB'S RESTORATION AND BLESSING CHAPTER 42:7-17 _ 1. Jehovah's message to Job's friends (Job 42:7)_ 2. Job's restoration (Job 42:10) 3. The conclusion: Peace (Job 42:16) Job 42:7. Like the beginning of the book, the prologue, the epilogue is not in a poetic measure, but in prose. The Lord addresseth Eliphaz as the most prominent one of the three friends of Job. His wrath is kindled against the three. Though they had apparently stood up for Him and defended His character, yet under the searchlight of the Omniscient One, who searcheth the hearts of men, they are found wanting. The charges they had brought

Job's final speech (continuation of Job 40:3). Job 42:1 is to be removed as a gloss: as are also Job 42:3 a, Job 42:4 b, which are quoted from Job 38:2 f., and probably came in from the margin. Job abases himself before the Almightiness of God as displayed in the creation, and acknowledges that he has spoken ignorantly. Job 42:5 contains the supreme lesson of the book (Peake). No new theoretical knowledge concerning God and His ways has been given to Job, but in direct intuition he has seen God face to

TURNED THE CAPTIVITY. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), _shdb eth sh buth,_ emphasizing recovery or deliverance from any trouble, as in Psalms 126:1; Psalms 126:4, &c. TWICE AS MUCH. This blessing was included in "the end of the Lord" (James 5:11). See note on p. 666....

_turned the captivity_ The metaphorical use of the phrase would readily arise in a state of society like that in the East. The expression means that Job's afflictions were removed and his prosperity restored....