Job 42:12

“And YHWH blessed the end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.”

Job 42:12 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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And YHWHיהוָהyhva

YHWH

The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.

Where else “yhva” appears
blessedבֵּרַךְberach

bless

God gives good things: life, children, harvests.

Where else “berach” appears
the endאַחֲרִיתacharit

end

Where something ends, and how it ends.

Where else “acharit” appears
of Jobאִיּוֹבiyov

Job

Job: the man of the land of Uz, blameless and upright, whose story of suffering and of questions to God is told in the book that bears his name. Ezekiel 14:14 and James 5:11 also mention him.

Where else “iyov” appears
more than his beginningרֵאשִׁתreshit

beginning

The beginning: "in the beginning".

Where else “reshit” appears
and he hadיְהִיyehi

exist

To exist: "let there be light".

Where else “yehi” appears
fourteenאַרְבָּעָהarbaa

four

Four.

Where else “arbaa” appears
fourteenעָשָׂרasar

-teen (ten)

Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".

Where else “asar” appears
thousandאֶלֶףelef

thousand

One thousand: a large, round number.

Where else “elef” appears
sheepצֹאןtson

flock

A flock of sheep and goats.

Where else “tson” appears
and sixשֵׁשֶׁתsheshet

six

Six; also "sixth".

Where else “sheshet” appears
camelsגְּמַלִּיםgemalim

camel

Camel.

Where else “gemalim” appears
yokeצֶמֶדtsemed

pair

Two animals harnessed together.

Where else “tsemed” appears
of oxenבָּקָרbakar

cattle, herd

Cattle: cows, oxen, bulls; a herd.

Where else “bakar” appears
female donkeysאֲתוֹנוֹתatonot

female donkey

Female donkey.

Where else “atonot” appears

Translation note

This is what Bildad had said in 8:7: “your beginning will have been small, and your end will grow very great.”

The context

11Then there came to him all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that YHWH had brought upon him; and they gave him each one a qesita and each one a ring of gold.

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13And he had seven sons and three daughters.

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