John Gill's Exposition on Job 42:13

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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, they might now be said to be double; and so they consider this as a proof of the immortality of the soul, and of the resurrection of the body; but these senses are not to be trusted to; whether these children were by a former wife or another is uncertain.

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