Job 42:13

“He had also seven sons, and three daughters.] The same number of children, and of the same sort he had before, (<180102>Job 1:2); and according to Nachman the very same he had before, which the additional letter in the word “seven” is with him the notification of; so that the doubting of what he had before, (<184210>Job 42:10); respects only his substance, and particularly his cattle; though the Targum says he had fourteen sons, and so Jarchi f1602; others think these may be said to be double to Job in their good qualities, external and internal, in their dispositions, virtues, and graces; and others, inasmuch as his former children were not lost, but lived with God, and would live for ever,…”

“The same number as before, Job 1:2; perhaps by a second wife; in Job 19:17 his wife is last mentioned.”

“He had also seven sons and three daughters - The same number which he had before his trials. Nothing is said of his wife, or whether these children were, or were not, by a second marriage. The last mention that is made of his wife is in Job 19:17, where he says that “his breath was strange to his wife, though he entreated her for the children’s sake of his own body.” The character of this woman does not appear to have been such as to have deserved further notice than the fact, that she contributed greatly to increase the calamities of her husband. It falls in with the design of the book to notice her only in this respect, and having done this, the sacred writer makes no further reference to…”

“Job 1:2; Psa 107:41, Psa 127:3; Isa 49:20 Job 42:15”

“13 And he had seven sons and three daughters. Therefore, instead of the seven sons and three daughters which he had, he receives just the same again, which is also so far a doubling, as deceased children also, according to the Old Testament view, are not absolutely lost, Sa2 12:23. The author of this book, in everything to the most minute thing consistent, here gives us to understand that with men who die and depart from us the relation is different from that with things which we have lost. The pausal שׁבענה (instead of שׁבעה), with paragogic âna, which otherwise is a fem. suff. (Ges. 91, rem. 2), here, however, standing in a prominent position, is an embellishment somewhat violently…”